The Auto Channel Weekend Reading - Auto Industry History

A Brief History of The First 100 Years of the Automobile Industry in the United States

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1. A century whittles auto makers to 3
• Chapter 2. American auto industry is born amid the snow of the great Chicago race
• Chapter 3. How Detroit became the Motor City
• Chapter 4. A homespun genius and an empire builder
• Chapter 5. Chrysler leaves GM and makes it the Big Three
• Chapter 6. Mr. Sloan, Harley Earl and dynamic obsolescence
• Chapter 7. `Looney gas' survives and changes engine
• Chapter 8. Hard times slim industry, Detroit starts selling dreams
• Chapter 9. UAW born amid sitdowns and the battle of the overpass
• Chapter 10. War halts car production and changes U.S. forever
• Chapter 11. The Golden Age: Tailfins and dreams of glory
• Chapter 12. Insolent chariots unsafe at any speed
• Chapter 13. Dinosaur slayer falters; car guys vs. money men
• Chapter 14. After the muscle cars, the world comes to an end
• Chapter 15. Saviors of the industry: More dreams of glory
• Chapter 16. Japan's sun rising as new world becomes one
• ...
• Chapter 20. Grandpa's world is gone, changed beyond recall

Copyright 1996, Richard A. Wright
Published by Wayne State University's Department of Communications