| What the heck happened with the US Car Industry | | | | that will bring you up to speed on the Big Three |
| and why did our elected leaders pay so much of our | | | | Automakers, and how they battled through the last |
| money to bailout two sinking ships? These are all | | | | recession and emerged stronger, only to find |
| questions that leave us scratching our heads, but to | | | | themselves in a worse mess, the one we have now. |
| get to the bottom of it all, you have to know a bit of | | | | The book is called; |
| the history and some of the recent history to | | | | "The End of Detroit; How the Big Three Lost Their |
| understand what really happened and why. | | | | Grip on The American Car Market," by Micheline |
| For those who know the reality behind the "The | | | | Maynard; Published by "Currency Book" a Double Day |
| Deming Years" in Detroit and watched as books like | | | | Brand and Division of Random House Inc.; New York, |
| "Collision Course" hit the scene, then watched the fall | | | | NY; (2003); 327 pages. ISBN: 0-385-50-769-0. |
| of Chrysler and the US Taxpayer Bailout; you know | | | | This book is extremely well foot-noted and written by |
| the challenges that the Big Three have faced over the | | | | someone who knows all the inside information on |
| last 4-5 decades. | | | | Detroit, she has written extensively on the Airlines and |
| Of course, we all know who that story ended, and we | | | | Auto Industry, and highly published in News and World |
| are waiting for Part II of the Trilogy as we Taxpayers | | | | Report, NYTs, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and |
| hold the bag yet again. But this is not your father's car | | | | Fortune Magazine. Interestingly enough, she is also the |
| companies anymore, and this was not Lee Iacocca's | | | | author of the book "Collision Course; Inside the Battle |
| Chrysler or the GM we once knew and believed when | | | | for General Motors." This book is really worth reading |
| we said; "What's good for GM is good for America!" | | | | and understanding. Please consider it. |
| Let me recommend a very good book for you to read | | | | |