Comeback: The Fall & Rise of the American Automobile Industry - Couverture souple

Ingrassia, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0684804379 ISBN 13 : 9780684804378

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 1995

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Paul Ingrassia, formerly the Detroit bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal and later the president of Dow Jones Newswire, is the deputy editor-in-chief of Reuters. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 (with Joseph B. White) for reporting on management crises at General Motors, he is the author of Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road from Glory to Disaster.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0684804379
• ISBN 13: 9780684804378
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV; info@simonandschuster.nl; ; Herculesplein 96; Utrecht; 3584 AA; Pays-Bas