Billy Durant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Billy Durant write by Lawrence R. Gustin. This book was released on 2012-10-16. Billy Durant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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search of answers to these questions, Lawrence Gustin interviewed Durant's widow, who provided a wealth of previously unpublished autobiographical notes, letters, and personal papers.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 result is the amazing account of the mastermind behind what would become, as the twentieth century progressed, the world's largest company.
The Deal Maker
The Deal Maker - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Deal Maker write by Axel Madsen. This book was released on 1999-09-06. The Deal Maker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The roller-coaster life of the flamboyant creator of General Motors William C. Durant did big things the big way: he overreached, but, until his final failure, he picked up the pieces time after time to confound his competitors. From a turbulent childhood in the small town of Flint, Michigan, to his phenomenal success in creating General Motors, Durant's meteoric career easily rivals the success stories of modern legends like Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, and Bill Gates. With his trademark smile and personal charisma, Durant assembled General Motors in a few short years, buying companies at the rate of one every thirty days. Durant's deal-making artistry even tempted Henry Ford, and had Durant upped his acquisition price Ford would be a division of GM today. Durant's story illuminates the conflict between innovation and control of innovation -of the uneasy alliances struck again and again between inventors and their sources of capital. His years of heady success building General Motors were marked by epic struggles with bankers. But he depended on only a few sources of big money to finance his exploding business, and pitted himself against forces he underestimated or refused to consider. Gambling on a run on GM stock, he was finally forced into a buyout that ousted him from his role in the GM empire. Into the dramatic tale of this early twentieth-century mogul come the fascinating automotive pioneers -Henry Ford, David Buick, Charles Nash, Albert Champion, Louis Chevrolet, and Alfred P. Sloan. On Wall Street, J. P. Morgan turned down Durant's request for a loan while Pierre du Pont invested in Durant's expansion. Tracing the fortunes of a man and his era, The Deal Maker is a fast-paced, rousing tale of Durant's dizzying success and ultimate failure.
Billy, Alfred, and General Motors
Billy, Alfred, and General Motors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Billy, Alfred, and General Motors write by William Pelfrey. This book was released on 2006. Billy, Alfred, and General Motors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Painstakingly researched, the book sheds new light on how the divergent approaches of Durant and Sloan were destined to forge an entirely new business archetype, one that would become (and today remains) a global standard."--Jacket.
The Dream Maker
The Dream Maker - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dream Maker write by Bernard A. Weisberger. This book was released on 1979. The Dream Maker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A biography of William Durant, the daring entrepreneur who bought the faltering Buick Motor Company and co-founded General Motors Company before his financial gambles lost him the presidency of GM and led to bankruptcy. -- Dust jacket.
The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of Philosophy write by Will Durant. This book was released on 1926. The Story of Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
