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Riding the Roller Coaster : A History of the Chrysler Corporation
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Riding the Roller Coaster : A History of the Chrysler Corporation Hardcover - 2003

by Hyde, Charles K

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  • Title Riding the Roller Coaster : A History of the Chrysler Corporation
  • Author Hyde, Charles K
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wayne State University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003-02-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 981770-20
  • ISBN 9780814330913 / 0814330916
  • Weight 2.29 lbs (1.04 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.46 x 7.34 x 1.22 in (26.57 x 18.64 x 3.10 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Automobile industry and trade - United States, Chrysler Corporation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002008512
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.762

From the publisher

From the Chrysler Six of 1924 to the front-wheel-drive vehicles of the 70s and 80s to the minivan, Chrysler boasts an impressive list of technological "firsts." But even though the company has catered well to a variety of consumers, it has come to the brink of financial ruin more than once in its seventy-five-year history.

How Chrysler has achieved monumental success and then managed colossal failure and sharp recovery is explained in Riding the Roller Coaster, a lively, unprecedented look at a major force in the American automobile industry since 1925. Charles Hyde tells the intriguing story behind Chrysler-its products, people, and performance over time-with particular focus on the company's management. He offers a lens through which the reader can view the U.S. auto industry from the perspective of the smallest of the automakers who, along with Ford and General Motors, make up the "Big Three."

The book covers Walter P. Chrysler's life and automotive career before 1925, when he founded the Chrysler Corporation, to 1998, when it merged with Daimler-Benz. Chrysler made a late entrance into the industry in 1925 when it emerged from Chalmers and Maxwell, and further grew when it absorbed Dodge Brothers and American Motors Corporation. The author traces this journey, explaining the company's leadership in automotive engineering, its styling successes and failures, its changing management, and its activities from auto racing to defense production to real estate. Throughout, the colorful personalities of its leaders-including Chrysler himself and Lee Iacocca-emerge as strong forces in the company's development, imparting a risk-taking mentality that gave the company its verve.

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Citations

  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2004, Page 30

About the author

Charles K. Hyde is a professor of History at Wayne State University Press and is author of many books, including The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes (Wayne State University Press, 1995) and Historic Highway Bridges of Michigan (Wayne State University Press, 1993).

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