Drive! : Henry Ford, George Selden, and the race to invent the auto age / [Lawrence Goldstone].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automobiles--History.

Automobiles.

History.

Automobile industry and trade--History.

Automobile industry and trade.

Automobiles--Design and construction--History.

Automobile driving--History.

Automobile driving.

Transportation, Automotive--History.

Transportation, Automotive.

Automobiles--Design and construction.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Ballantine Books, [2016]

Summary:

"A revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile ... [a] true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world. In 1900, the Automobile Club of America sponsored the nation's first car show in New York's Madison Square Garden. The event was a spectacular success, attracting seventy exhibitors and nearly fifty thousand visitors. Among the spectators was an obscure would-be automaker named Henry Ford, who walked the floor speaking with designers and engineers, trying to gauge public enthusiasm for what was then a revolutionary invention. His conclusion: the automobile was going to be a fixture in American society, both in the city and on the farm-- and would make some people very rich. None, he decided, more than he. [This book] is the most complete account to date of the wild early days of the auto age ... [and] shows that the creation of the automobile was not the work of one man, but very much a global effort. ... With a narrative as propulsive as its subject, [the book] plunges us headlong into a time unlike any in history, when near-manic innovation, competition, and consumerist zeal coalesced to change the way the world moved."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue: A day in court

Power in a tube

The man who would be king

Made in Germany ...

... Perfected in France

An uneasy romance with the horse

Early Americans

The self-created man

Speed

A road of one's own

The once and future car

Selden redux

Ford begins his alphabet

Man and dog over the Rockies

Willie K. comes home

Collision

Willie K.'s road

Palace coup

The first shot of the revolution

Mr. Selden comes to New York

Ford Motor comes of age

Around the world in 169 days

Ford's phenomenon

False end of a long trail

It's never over ...

Epilogue.

Notes:

Statement of responsibility from the dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-358) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947- author. Drive!

ISBN:

9780553394184

0553394185

OCLC:

942744898