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29%OFFG. Wayne Miller - Car Crazy: The Battle for Supremacy between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age - 9781610395519 - V9781610395519
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Car Crazy: The Battle for Supremacy between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age

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Description for Car Crazy: The Battle for Supremacy between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, B/W photos throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; WGCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 169 x 39. Weight in Grams: 594.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781610395519
SKU
V9781610395519
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About G. Wayne Miller
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Car Crazy: The Battle for Supremacy between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age
The dawn of the auto age brought with it conflict, controversy, fear and excitement as ably illustrated in G. Wayne Miller's book... Simultaneously tracking several threads of the story of early automobiles, Miller reveals business and legal battles, engineering and mechanical innovations, endurance races over destructive terrain, and the social impact of the car... Several of the people who comprise ... Read more

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


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