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Billy Durant : Creator of General Motors by Lawrence R. Gustin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Billy Durant : Creator of General Motors about?
A new edition of the classic book on the flamboyant genius who helped lead America into the automobile age| Praise for the first edition: "A fascinating book [and] a sympathetic look at the man who glued General Motors together and in the process made Flint one of the great industrial centers of America." —-__Detroit Free Press__ "It is refreshing to report that __Billy Durant__ is one of the best researched books dealing with an automotive giant." —-__Antique Automobile__ "__Billy Durant__ fills in a masterly way the only important void remaining concerning the work of the motorcar pioneers." —-Richard Crabb, author of __Birth of a Giant: The Men and Incidents That Gave America the Motorcar__ What explains Billy Durant's powerful influence on the auto industry during its early days? And why, given Durant's impact, has he been nearly forgotten for decades? In search of answers to these questions, Lawrence Gustin interviewed Durant's widow, who provided a wealth of previously unpublished autobiographical notes, letters, and personal papers. Gustin also interviewed two of Durant's personal secretaries and others who had known and worked with the man who created General Motors. The re
Who reads Billy Durant : Creator of General Motors?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lawrence R. Gustin
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press/Regional
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780472033027
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Transportation, Business
- Updated
- 2026-03-24