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The Reckoning
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After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the Japanese auto industry in the decades after World War II. David Halberstam, with his signature precision and absorbing narrative style, traces this power shift by delving into the boardrooms and onto the factory floors of the America's Ford Motor Company and Japan's Nissan. Different in every way—from their reactions to labor problems to their philosophies and leadership styles—the two companies stand as singular testaments to the challenges brought by the rise of the global economy.
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of
and
, and filled with intriguing vignettes about Henry Ford, Lee Iacocca, and other visionary industrial leaders,
remains a powerful and enlightening story about manufacturing in the modern age, and how America fell woefully behind.
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About David Halberstam
(1934-2007) was the author of twenty-two books, including fifteen bestsellers. Born in New York City, Halberstam spent much of the 1960s as a reporter for the
, covering the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. His Vietnam reporting earned him both a George C. Polk Award and a 1964 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
dubbed Halberstam "the Moses of American journalism," and the subjects of his books reflect his passion and range: war, foreign policy, history, and sports.
(1962), his sixth book, a critique of the Kennedy administration's Vietnam policy, became a #1 bestseller. His next book,
, a study of four American media companies, was hailed by the
as a "prodigy of research." Many of Halberstam's books explored themes in professional sports, including bestsellers
, a portrait of the friendship between baseball players Ted Williams, Dominic DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Bobby Doerr, and
, a profile of New England Patriots' Coach Bill Belichick.
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