Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout--And Beyond by Ingrassia, Paul
Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout--And Beyond by Ingrassia, Paul

Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout--And Beyond

"A definitive account . . . It's hard to imagine anyone better than Paul Ingrassia to 'ride...
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Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout--And Beyond by Ingrassia, Paul

Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout--And Beyond

BD$31.67
Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout--And Beyond by Ingrassia, Paul

Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout--And Beyond

BD$31.67
Author: Paul Ingrassia
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"A definitive account . . . It's hard to imagine anyone better than Paul Ingrassia to 'ride shotgun' on a journey through the sometimes triumphant, often turbulent, history of U.S. automaking. . . . A] wealth of amusing, astonishing and enlightening nuggets."--Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry's rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit's Big Three car companies--once proud symbols of prosperity--through bankruptcy. With unprecedented access, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Ingrassia takes us from factory floors to small-town dealerships to Detroit's boardrooms to the White House. Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit's self-destruction inevitable? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves did? Complete with a new Afterword providing fresh insights into the continuing upheaval in the auto industry--the travails of Toyota, the revolving-door management and IPO at General Motors, the unexpected progress at Chrysler, and the Obama administration's stake in Detroit's recovery--Crash Course addresses a critical question: America bailed out GM, but who will bail out America?

With an updated Afterword by the author

Praise for Crash Course

"In order to understand just how much of a mess it was--not to mention how it got that way and how, if at all, it can be cleaned up--you really need to read Crash Course."--The Washinton Post

"Ingrassia tells Detroit's story with economy, vigour and restrained fury."--The Economist

"A delightful mix of history and first-person reporting . . . Employing superb storytelling skills, Ingrassia explains in head-shaking detail the elements of a wholly avoidable collision."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Author: Paul Ingrassia
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 01/11/2011
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.15h x 5.57w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780812980752


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 01/30/2011 pg. 24

About the Author
Paul Ingrassia is the former Detroit bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 (with Joseph B. White) for reporting on management crises at General Motors, Ingrassia has chronicled the auto industry for more than twenty-five years. He is co-author, with White, of Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry, and has made numerous media appearances on ABC TV's World News Tonight and Good Morning America, NPR's Morning Edition, and other programs.


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