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Overview

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 — ...

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Overview

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.

With the narrative drive of the best fiction, distinguished by the perspicacity that made books like Barbarians at the Gate and Indecent Exposu re bestsellers, this is one of the biggest stories ever: the collapse and astonishing comeback of America's auto industry. photos.

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After posting record operating losses of $7.5 billion in 1991, Detroit's ``Big Three'' automakers seemed headed for disaster. But the last three years have brought a dramatic turnaround. How Ford, Chrysler and General Motors transformed themselves from tottering dinosaurs turning out defect-ridden cars in the 1980s into efficient producers of popular automobiles is the theme of this riveting, juicy, optimistic report. Ingrassia, Wall Street Journal senior editor in Detroit, and White, the Journal's deputy bureau chief in Michigan, offer a familiar story-American plants adapted Japanese methods and technology learned from Japanese-U.S. joint ventures. But the authors also provide a candid inside look at Big Three decision-making, power struggles, arrogance and near-diasters, telling how a new cadre of managers replaced a stultifying status quo, along with withering profiles of Lee Iacocca, Roger Smith, Donald Petersen, Bob Lutz and other top auto executives. Photos. First serial to Wall Street Journal; author tour. (Sept.)
Library Journal
Pulitzer Prize winners Ingrassia and White, both of the Wall Street Journal's Michigan bureau, have written the definitive recent history of the American automobile industry. In the last five years, Ford, GM, and Chrysler have all managed to rebound from the near-fatal mistakes they made in the 1980s. The authors go beyond the daily barrage of press releases and earnings reports to unearth a dramatic tale of clashing egos and boardroom intrigue. The result is a story at once engrossing and packed with valuable information. Although intended for general readers, this flawlessly researched book will also serve as an excellent resource for special collections. This work will nicely balance Maryann Keller's more internationally focused Collision (LJ 10/1/93). Highly recommended.-Alexander Wright, Harvard Univ. Lib, Cambridge, Mass.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780684804378
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publication date: 10/18/1995
  • Pages: 512
  • Sales rank: 996,704
  • Product dimensions: 1.19 (w) x 5.50 (h) x 8.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Paul Ingrassia, currently the deputy editor-in-chief of Reuters, is the former president of Dow Jones Newswires and former Detroit bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 (with Joseph B. White) for reporting on management crises at General Motors, Ingrassia has chronicled the auto industry for more than twenty-five years. He is the author of Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster and co-author, with White, of Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry. He lives in Summit, New Jersey and Naples, Florida.

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