Comeback: the Rise and Fall of the American Automobile Industry (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Comeback: the Rise and Fall of the American Automobile Industry In a compelling, fast-paced narrative, the authors chart the remarkable reconstruction of America's dying auto industry, revealing the inside stories of Chrysler's startling recovery, the boardroom coup that revolutionized General Motors, and the reinvention of Ford by a group of devoted middle managers.
Full description- Publisher: TOUCHSTONE
- Published: 18 October 1995
- Format: Paperback 532 pages
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- Categories: Development Economics | Business & Management | Industry & Industrial Studies | Road Vehicle Manufacturing Industry | History: Specific Events & Topics
- ISBN 13: 9780684804378 ISBN 10: 0684804379
- Sales rank: 1,315,039
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Full description for Comeback: the Rise and Fall of the American Automobile Industry
In "Comeback", Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's premier industry stumbled, fell, and picked itself up again. The story begins in 1982, when Honda started building cars in Marysville, Ohio, and the entire U.S. car industry seemed to be on the brink of extinction. It ends just over a decade later, with a remarkable turn of the tables, as Japan's car industry falters and America's Big Three emerge as formidable global competitors. "Comeback" is a story propelled by larger-than-life characters-- Lee Iacocca, Henry Ford II, Don Petersen, Roger Smith, among many others-- and their greed, pride, and sheer refusal to face facts. But it is also a story full of dedicated, unlikely heroes who struggled to make the Big Three change before it was too late.
