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The Reckoning

David Halberstam
4.4
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Pages
752
Year
2012
Language
English
Publisher
Open Road Media

About

Told with panoramic detail and gripping insight, The Reckoning is the inside story of automakers Ford and Nissanand the collapse of America's industrial supremacy After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the Japanese auto industry in the decades after World War II. David Halberstam, with his signature precision and absorbing narrative style, traces this power shift by delving into the boardrooms and onto the factory floors of the America's Ford Motor Company and Japan's Nissan. Different in every wayfrom their reactions to labor problems to their philosophies and leadership stylesthe two companies stand as singular testaments to the challenges brought by the rise of the global economy. With intriguing vignettes about Henry Ford, Lee Iacocca, and other visionary industrial leaders, The Reckoning remains a powerful and enlightening story about manufacturing in the modern age, and how America fell woefully behind.   This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.

Related Subjects

  • Corporate & Business History
  • Business & Economics
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • 20th Century
  • United States
  • History
  • Manufacturing
  • Industries
  • Automobile Industry

Reviews

"Wonderful... unique and valuable... A cautionary tale that makes us understand why we weep for America at the same time that we buy Japanese."
Chicago Tribune
"Here is fresh and crucially meaningful material researched with notable thoroughness, replete with graphic portraits of top American and Japanese industrialists competing blindly on the one hand and with brilliant cunning on the other. The book is among the most absorbing of recent years, every page contributing to the breathtaking picture of an America that is going to learn to retool or else."
Publishers Weekly

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David HalberstamAuthor

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