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Witch Hunt - Essays on the U.S Auto Industry and the Blithering Idiots Who Almost Killed it (Hardcover)
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Then, it all started to unravel, and after years of teetering near
disaster, the industry finally collapsed onto itself, a victim of
its own complacency and serial incompetence, to be sure, but also a
colossal casualty of a rapidly manic global economy that rewarded
new and next over hoary traditions powered by historical inertia.
Today, we have two of the three principal players in the U.S. auto
industry crawling from the wreckage of excruciating and painfully
humiliating bankruptcies, and though their wounds were largely
self-inflicted and nearly fatal, the fact remains that this
industry - having set the tempo for America's manufacturing base
for decades - is still standing. But there is still a story to be
told - and what a tale it is. From the conniving corporate
sycophants and mindless bureaucratic weasels to the legions of
self-aggrandizing politicians (who treated the looming disaster as
their personal playground, while putting their stunning,
maliciously driven biases and incompetence on display for the whole
country to see), it is a saga filled with outrage and flat-out
stupidity as well as wonder and blatant disbelief. So here then are
the staggering details: How an entire founding industry - the
mainstay of the American industrial fabric - came unglued, went
down for the count, and eventually pulled itself up by its
bootstraps so it could live to fight another day.
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