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Lawrence Goldstone

Drive!

Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age

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From the acclaimed author of Birdmen comes a revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile, an illuminating and entertaining 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 wha… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-553-39418-4
  • EAN: 9780553394184
  • Produktnummer: 18888651
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 384 S.

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Lawrence Goldstone is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies. One of his novels won a New American Writing Award; another was a New York Times notable mystery. His work has been profiled in The New York Times, the Toronto Star, Salon, and Slate, among others. He lives on Long Island with his wife, Nancy.

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