About this title: The bestselling author of Airport and Hotel now tells about the world's richest industry. In Motor City, passionate men and women play a power game fueled by greed, lust, and dreams.
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780385028295ISBN:0385028296
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Boards with very light rubbing. Pages clean. Small piece of clear tape inside front board. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780553238297ISBN:0553238299
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 512 p. Audience: General/trade. Somewhat beaten up from reading. Crease on fron cover, page corners have been turned. Previous owner'; s name written on some inside pages. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1973
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, read once, light shelf wear to cover, creases on spine, light aging, stk #2037aa. 501 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published: 1971
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ a little weathered but in excellent condition for its age. No rips, tears or bends. No writing. Smokefree. 374 p.; 25 cm. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1973
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Readers Copy-tip cut/creases-significant shelf wear-no creasing in spine/tight-pgs. clean/white. read more
"Fun book to read, if you're as in to details as much as I am (or cars, I suppose, which I'm not at all). Read this years ago when it was sitting around the house. The main thing I remember was his description of the new model-year process - that the car makers *always* need to shoot down the first set of designs, and often the second set as well, just because they can. But the designers can't help themselves but put their best ideas out there first... so basically for decades we had mediocre designs rather than optimal due to ego etc.. Knowing that's an interpretation, still; this book did give me a certain lack of surprise with all the depressing things that have happened with our US auto industry. Like (initially) killing the electric car, etc.. etc.. Still I may re-read it and see about others.."
"This was my first Arthur Hailey novel, one that was lying around the house when I was 15. It was not among the first grown up novels that I read, but it was one of the relatively few not set in the distant past. It has interesting characters for the most part, and you learn a lot about how a car is developed. Even 30 years later it still has relevance.
The thing about Hailey is that all of his novels are readable, which sounds a bit trite I know, but it fits. There's not a bad or mediocre one in the bunch, even if there are few that could be considered classic. I gave this one a five star more for nostalgia than anything, but I did love it all three of the times I read it."
"I read this book when i was doing my BE(Mech), this books make u to know when a production house is,, how thing work in there, the hierarchy, the R & D, product development, politics involved, passing the leisure time, & many more things,,,
After reading this book i decided never ever to join a Production house in my life, ha ha ha,, However i started my career in a production house."
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