Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
Description
This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry's rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, denial, 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. The cost to American taxpayers topped $100 billion-enough to buy every car and truck sold in America in the first half of 2009. With unprecedented access, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Ingrassia takes us from factory floors to small-town dealerships to Detroit's boardrooms to the inner sanctums of the White House. He reveals why President Barack Obama personally decided to save Chrysler when many of his advisors opposed the idea. Ingrassia provides the dramatic story behind Obama's dismissal of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner and the angry reaction from GM's board-the same people who had watched idly while the company plunged into penury. In Crash Course, Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit's self-destruction inevitable? What were the key turning points? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves did? Ingrassia also describes dysfunctional corporate cultures (even as GM's market share plunged, the company continued business as usual) and Detroit's perverse system of "inverse layoffs" (which allowed union members to invoke seniority to avoid work). Along the way we meet Detroit's frustrated reformers and witness the wrenching decisions that Ford executives had to make to avoid GM's fate. Informed by Ingrassia's twenty-five years of experience covering the auto industry for the Wall Street Journal, and showing an appreciation for Detroit's profound influence on our country's society and culture, Crash Course is a uniquely American and deeply instructive story, one not to be missed.
More Details
ISBN:
9781400195107
Staff View
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | e6b17720-a994-c878-7220-2942233621de |
---|---|
Grouping Title | crash course the american automobile industrys road from glory to disaster |
Grouping Author | paul ingrassia |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2023-01-27 04:07:49AM |
Last Indexed | 2023-01-27 05:17:04AM |
Solr Fields
accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
author
Ingrassia, Paul
author_display
Ingrassia, Paul
detailed_location_aacpl
Online OverDrive Collection
display_description
This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry's rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, denial, 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. The cost to American taxpayers topped $100 billion-enough to buy every car and truck sold in America in the first half of 2009. With unprecedented access, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Ingrassia takes us from factory floors to small-town dealerships to Detroit's boardrooms to the inner sanctums of the White House. He reveals why President Barack Obama personally decided to save Chrysler when many of his advisors opposed the idea. Ingrassia provides the dramatic story behind Obama's dismissal of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner and the angry reaction from GM's board-the same people who had watched idly while the company plunged into penury. In Crash Course, Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit's self-destruction inevitable? What were the key turning points? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves did? Ingrassia also describes dysfunctional corporate cultures (even as GM's market share plunged, the company continued business as usual) and Detroit's perverse system of "inverse layoffs" (which allowed union members to invoke seniority to avoid work). Along the way we meet Detroit's frustrated reformers and witness the wrenching decisions that Ford executives had to make to avoid GM's fate. Informed by Ingrassia's twenty-five years of experience covering the auto industry for the Wall Street Journal, and showing an appreciation for Detroit's profound influence on our country's society and culture, Crash Course is a uniquely American and deeply instructive story, one not to be missed.
format_aacpl
eAudiobook
format_category_aacpl
Audio Books
eBook
eBook
id
e6b17720-a994-c878-7220-2942233621de
isbn
9781400195107
last_indexed
2023-01-27T10:17:04.031Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Non Fiction
literary_form_full
Non Fiction
local_callnumber_aacpl
Online OverDrive
owning_library_aacpl
Anne Arundel County Public Library Online
owning_location_aacpl
Online OverDrive Collection
primary_isbn
9781400195107
publishDate
2010
publisher
Tantor Media, Inc.
recordtype
grouped_work
title_display
Crash Course The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
title_full
Crash Course The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
title_short
Crash Course
title_sub
The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
topic_facet
Business
Nonfiction
Transportation
Nonfiction
Transportation
Solr Details Tables
item_details
Bib Id | Item Id | Shelf Loc | Call Num | Format | Format Category | Num Copies | Is Order Item | Is eContent | eContent Source | eContent URL | Detailed Status | Last Checkin | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
overdrive:cabd1e36-58d3-46e3-979b-e38468e669c8 | -1 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eAudiobook | Audio Books | 1 | false | true | OverDrive | Checked Out | |||
overdrive:cabd1e36-58d3-46e3-979b-e38468e669c8 | 1 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eAudiobook | Audio Books | 0 | false | true | OverDrive | Checked Out |
record_details
Bib Id | Format | Format Category | Edition | Language | Publisher | Publication Date | Physical Description | Abridged |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
overdrive:cabd1e36-58d3-46e3-979b-e38468e669c8 | eAudiobook | Audio Books | English | Tantor Media, Inc | 2010 |
scoping_details_aacpl
Bib Id | Item Id | Grouped Status | Status | Locally Owned | Available | Holdable | Bookable | In Library Use Only | Library Owned | Holdable PTypes | Bookable PTypes | Local Url |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
overdrive:cabd1e36-58d3-46e3-979b-e38468e669c8 | -1 | Checked Out | Checked Out | false | false | true | false | false | false | |||
overdrive:cabd1e36-58d3-46e3-979b-e38468e669c8 | 1 | Checked Out | Checked Out | false | false | true | false | false | true |