Car Crazy: The Battle for Supremacy between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (622 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1610395514 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Billy” Durant of Buick Motor Company (and soon General Motors); and inventor Henry Ford. Olds, founder of Olds Motor Works and creator of a new company called REO; Olds’ cutthroat new CEO Frederic L. Car Crazy takes readers back to the passionate and reckless years of the early automobile era, from 1893, when the first US-built auto was introduced, through 1908, when General Motors was founded and Ford’s Model T went on the market. Before the Big Three,” even before the Model T, the race for dominance in the American car market was fierce, fast, and sometimes farcical. The motorcar was new, paved roads few, and devotees of this exciting and unregulated technology battled with citizens who co
A must for car lovers and plenty of interesting material to keep other curious readers flipping pages.” Kirkus ReviewsDoes the best job of teaching you everything about the 1st decade of American car-making (1900 1910) that I think we are ever likely to get. The dawn of the auto age brought with it conflict, controversy, fear and excitement as ably illustrated in G. Fascinating." LLewellyn King, host of PBS' White House Chronicle"Fascinating It was a time of off-the-wall characters, eager-to-corner markets and run competitors off the road. Hassenfeld, former chairman, CEO and president of entertainment giant Hasbro. Some things never change. With a rag-tag cast of underdogs, death-defying
James Rodway said AMAZING read about the insanity of the early days of the automobile. Every week millions of people watch car racing across this country. Obviously there are hundreds of millions of cars in the USA. What's easy to forget is that just a little over a hundred years ago the industry was nothing but a bunch of start ups lead by men with big dreams, big egos and more than a little wild west entrepreneurship flowing through their veins.Wayne Miller has once again foun. "A Great Narrative Non-Fiction Ride!" according to Ryan Dixon. Not only has Wayne Miller written the definitive book on the early days of the automobile industry, he has done so with the style, panache and rich character development of the best non-fiction. Miller has also managed to endow his book with a narrative and expositional balance that will satisfy both car obsessives who can tell the difference between a 1908 and 1909 Model T and readers apathet. Although I have enjoyed G. Wayne Miller’s books Katherine Chu Although I have enjoyed G. Wayne Miller’s books, I am not a big car lover so what intrigued me when considering this one was how the birth of the auto culturally transformed America, in ways that last to today. The narrative style Miller uses in his other books (Toy Wars, King of Hearts, Men and Speed, etc.) brought me right into the thick of the many battles in those early days that pit