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Author
Publisher
McFarland and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"This exhaustive reference work details every model from each of the major American manufacturers from model years 1973 through 1980, including various "captive imports." Within each model year, it reports on each manufacturer's significant news and details every model offered: its specifications, powertrain offerings, prices, standard features, major options, and production figures. Has approximately 1,300 photographs"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
“Vintage Iacocca . . . He is fast-talking, blunt, boastful, and unabashedly patriotic. Lee Iacocca is also a genuine folk hero. . . . His career is breathtaking.”٬٢٠١٤؛Business Week He’s an American legend, a straight-shooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the process became a media celebrity, newsmaker, and a man many had urged to run for president. The son of Italian immigrants, Lee Iacocca rose...
10) Cars in America
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
This volume explores the topics relating to automobiles in the United States by presenting varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise these issues. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading skills that are essential in a culture of diverse and contradictory opinions....
12) Henry Ford
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti-Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made millions producing war materials. He urbanized the modern world, and then tried to drag it back into a romanticized rural past he'd helped to destroy. As the...
13) Trafic =
Series
Criterion collection volume 439
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
Français
Description
The bumbling Monsieur Hulot, outfitted with tan raincoat, beaten brown hat, and umbrella, takes to Paris's highways and byways.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Inside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the perfect car Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he's a genius and a visionary; to others he's a mercurial con artist. Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets; his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel, his most audacious vision...
18) Henry Ford
Author
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sketches the life of the inventor and businessman who with hard work and an innovative mind changed the car industry in ways that will never be duplicated.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Birdmen comes a revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile, an illuminating and entertaining true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world. In 1900, the Automobile Club of America sponsored the nation's first car show in New York's Madison Square Garden. The event was a spectacular success, attracting seventy exhibitors and nearly...
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