Car Crazy: The Battle for Supremacy between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age

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G. Wayne Miller

Car Crazy

The Battle for Supremacy between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age

G. Wayne Miller

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English

PublicAffairs,U.S.
03 November 2015

Transport: general interest

"Before the

Big Three,"" even before the Model T, the race for dominance in the American car market was fierce, fast, and sometimes farcical.

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. The motorcar was new, paved roads few, and devotees of this exciting and unregulated technology battled with citizens who considered the car a dangerous scourge, wrought by the wealthy, that was shattering a more peaceful way of life.

Among the pioneering competitors were Ransom E. Olds, founder of Olds Motor Works and creator of a new company called REO Olds' cutthroat new CEO Frederic L. Smith William C.

Billy"" Durant of Buick Motor Company (and soon General Motors) and inventor Henry Ford. They shared a passion for innovation, both mechanical and entrepreneurial, but their maniacal pursuit of market share would also involve legal manipulation, vicious smear campaigns, and zany publicity stunts,including a wild transcontinental car race that transfixed the public. Their war on wheels ultimately culminated in a courtroom battle that would shape the American car industry forever.

Based on extensive original research,

Car Crazy

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."

By: G. Wayne Miller
Imprint: PublicAffairs,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 596g
ISBN: 9781610395519
ISBN 10: 1610395514
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 03 November 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Car Crazy: The Battle for Supremacy between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age

This is a story rich with corporate war, courtroom drama, world-record racing, and larger-than-life characters--in particular Henry Ford, who was not just a mechanical and business genius, but one of America's original speed demons. --Jack Roush, founder and CEO of Roush Fenway Racing, the NASCAR team With the combination of his historian's eye and a unique, cinematic-style approach to storytelling, Wayne Miller has written an exciting page-turner. With a rag-tag cast of underdogs, death-defying spectacles and thrilling courtroom drama, Car Crazy is a must-read book that explores the against-all-odds survival of the American automotive industry in its infancy. --Danny Strong, Emmy-winning screenwriter of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Parts 1 and 2, and Lee Daniels' The Butler Car Crazy is a business story without compare about an industry that changed the American economy and culture forever. In Wayne Miller's hands, it is also a story that reads like a novel, with a compelling narrative, monumental triumphs, historic failures, and a colorful cast of entrepreneurs, heroes, villains, and ordinary folk who accomplished the extraordinary. --Alan G. Hassenfeld, former chairman, CEO and president of entertainment giant Hasbro