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Car crazy : the battle for supremacy between Ford and Olds and the dawn of the automobile age / G. Wayne Miller.
"In Car Crazy, G. Wayne Miller, takes readers back to the wild and wooly years of the early automobile era--from 1893, when the first U.S.-built auto was introduced, through 1908, when General Motors was founded and Ford's Model T went on the market. As the machine transformed American culture for better and worse, early corporate battles for survival and market share transformed the economic landscape. The fiercest fight pits Henry Ford against Frederic Smith of Olds. Olds was the early winner in the race for dominance, but now the Olds empire is in trouble, its once-industry leading market share shrinking, its cash dwindling. Ford is just revving up. But this is Ford's third attempt at a successful auto company--and if this one fails, quite possibly his last. So Smith fights Ford with the weapons he knows best: lawyers, blackmail, intimidation, and a vicious advertising smear campaign that ultimately backfires. Car Wars is a page-turning story of popular culture, business, and sport at the dawn of the twentieth century, filled with compelling, larger-than-life characters, each an American original."
Record details
- ISBN: 9781610395519
- ISBN: 1610395514
- Physical Description: xv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, [2015]
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| General Note: | "In Car Crazy, G. Wayne Miller, takes readers back to the wild and wooly years of the early automobile era--from 1893, when the first U.S.-built auto was introduced, through 1908, when General Motors was founded and Ford's Model T went on the market. As the machine transformed American culture for better and worse, early corporate battles for survival and market share transformed the economic landscape. The fiercest fight pits Henry Ford against Frederic Smith of Olds. Olds was the early winner in the race for dominance, but now the Olds empire is in trouble, its once-industry leading market share shrinking, its cash dwindling. Ford is just revving up. But this is Ford's third attempt at a successful auto company--and if this one fails, quite possibly his last. So Smith fights Ford with the weapons he knows best: lawyers, blackmail, intimidation, and a vicious advertising smear campaign that ultimately backfires. Car Wars is a page-turning story of popular culture, business, and sport at the dawn of the twentieth century, filled with compelling, larger-than-life characters, each an American original." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cast of characters : The carmakers -- Karl Friedrich Benz -- Roy D. Chapin -- James J. Couzens -- William Crapo "Billy" Durant -- Charles E. and J. Frank Duryea -- Henry Ford -- Edward S. "Spider" Huff -- Emile Levassor -- Alexander Y. Malcomson -- Ransom Eli Olds -- Frederic L. Smith -- The drivers -- Tom Cooper -- Dwight B. Huss -- Webb Jay -- Ernest D. Keeler -- Percy F. Megargel -- Barney Oldfield -- The mechanics -- David F. Fassett -- Barton Stanchfield -- Milford Wigle -- The patent players -- Frederick P. Fish -- Charles M. Hough -- Walter C. Noyes -- George B. Selden -- Ralzemond B. Parker -- The good roads evangelists -- James W. Abbott -- Albert Augustus Pope -- Isaac B. Potter -- Roy Stone -- The scoundrels -- Lone John -- Big Nose George Parrott -- The Road Hog -- The ruffians -- Edward R. Thomas -- 1. Fastest man on earth -- 2. Native sons -- 3. The Selden patent -- 4. Meet me in St. Louis -- 5. Sensation -- 6. Bad behaviors, bad roads -- 7. The horse loses power -- 8. The West, still wild -- 9. Victories and defeats -- 10. Doubts subsiding -- 11. "Equal to his weight in wildcats." |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | TL 215 .F7 M55 2015 | 30775305542400 | General Collection | Available | - |
Car Crazy : The Battle for Supremacy Between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age
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Car Crazy : The Battle for Supremacy Between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age
G. Wayne Miller is a Visiting Fellow at Salve Regina University's Pell centre for International Relations and Public Policy, in Newport, Rhode Island, where he is director of the centre's Story in the Public Square initiative (www.publicstory.org). He is a long-time staff writer for The Providence Journal, where he was member of a Pulitzer Prize-finalist team that covered a deadly nightclub fire. Miller is the author of seven works of contemporary and historical narrative non-fiction, including Toy Wars, King of Hearts, and Men and Speed. He also wrote and co-produced three documentaries broadcast on PBS, including most recently The Providence Journal's Coming Home, about veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, which was nominated for a New England Emmy and won the regional Edward R. Murrow Award. He is the recipient of the 2013 Roger Williams Independent Voice Award from the Rhode Island International Film Festival. He lives near Providence, RI.
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