Fins : : Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit
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Call Number: 921 Earl, Harley
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Pioneers -- Hollywood and Harley -- The competitors -- The Cadillac Kid -- Battleground Detroit -- Assembly lines to breadlines -- A man of style and "statue" -- "What will I tell Mr. Sloan?" -- Helping make Germany great again -- "I wouldn't buy that sonofabitch" -- Detroit's war -- The birth of fins -- Designing the future -- The great American sports car race -- The hot one -- Glory days -- Insurrection -- Not fade away.
Chronicles the rise of the American auto industry through the life of Harley Earl, an innovator who introduced the art of automobile styling into the auto-making industry, revolutionizing the way cars were made and marketed.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Year Published: 2018
Description: 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062289070
0062289071
SUBJECTS
Earl, Harley.
Earl, Harley.
General Motors Corporation -- History.
General Motors Corporation.
Automobile engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Automobile industry and trade -- United States -- History.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Economic conditions.