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One industry has already established more effect on life in the us than some other before or since. Here is the report of two men and one company at the start of it all.You couldn't find two more different men. Billy Durant was the consummate salesman, an excellent wheeler-dealer with grand strategies, unflappable energy, and a fondness for the high life. Alfred Sloan was the intellectual, a specialist running a business strategy and management, expert of all things organizational. Together, this odd few built perhaps the most successful organization in U.S. history, Basic Motors, and with it an industry that has come to identify modern life across the world. Their report is packed with timeless lessons, cautionary stories, and inspiration for business leaders and history buffs as well.Billy, Alfred, and Basic Motors is the tale not merely of the two outstanding men of its title but also of the formative years of 20th-century America, through two world wars and sea changes running a business, industry, politics, and culture. The book includes vivid, warts-and-all portraits of the legends of the fantastic age of the auto, from "Crazy" Henry Ford, Ransom Olds, and Charles Nash to the fantastic but uncredited David Dunbar Buick and Cadillac founder Henry Leland.The impact of Durant and Sloan on the contemporaries and their industry is matched only by the powerful legacy with their improbable and amazing partnership. Characters, happenings, and context--all are helped bring skillfully and passionately alive in this meticulously researched and supremely readable book.
