Magic Wagons: Creating the first 20 years of Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth people-and-cargo-movers

This is a book about people, leadership, and the process of creating and reinventing a hit car.

In the early 1970s, Chrysler started working on a "magic wagon" — a completely new passenger van that would fit into a normal garage. It was a daring project for a company that was strapped for cash.

This book taps the people who created the minivans, with previously unpublished photos of the original clay models. Ten years before the first minivan left the assembly line, engineers, planners, and...