Automotive History

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    • The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
    • By: Paul Ingrassia
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • In Crash Course, Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit's self-destruction inevitable? What were the key turning points....

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    • By: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24,812 ratings
    • Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

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    • A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars
    • By: Paul Ingrassia
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 330 ratings
    • America was made manifest by its cars. From the assembly lines of Henry Ford to the open roads of Route 66 and Jack Kerouac....

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    • By: Adrian Newey
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,618 ratings
    • The world's foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain's greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir....

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    • How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
    • By: Neal Bascomb
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph over Hitler’s fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing....

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    • General Motors and the End of American Enterprise
    • By: Kenneth Whyte
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • A provocative, revelatory history of the epic rise - and unnecessary fall - of the US automotive industry, uncovering the vivid story of innovation, politics, and business that led to a sudden, seismic shift in American priorities that is still felt today....

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    • Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
    • By: A. J. Baime
    • Narrated by: Jones Allen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,479 ratings
    • Henry Ford, Lee Iaococca and Carroll Shelby concoted a scheme to reinvent the Ford company. They would enter the high-stakes world of European car racing....

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    • Out of the Shadow of Greatness
    • By: Michael Hembree
    • Narrated by: Robert Sams
    • Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • The story of NASCAR's legendary racer - newly revised Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s name virtually assured that his life would not be ordinary....

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    • Classic Car Series, Book 1
    • By: J.P. Evans
    • Narrated by: William Westendorf
    • Series: Classic Car, Book 1
    • Length: 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Do you love cars? Do you love interesting stories about start-ups? Do you love crazy stories about founders and their ups and downs? If so, this book, and the books in this series, are for you....

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    • A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
    • By: Jason Fagone
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car....

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    • Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age
    • By: Lawrence Goldstone
    • Narrated by: Christopher Price
    • Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Drive! plunges us headlong into a time unlike any in history, when manic innovation and consumerist zeal coalesced to forever change the way people got from one place to another....

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    • Documenting the Paradigm Shift from the Era of Oil and Internal Combustion, to the Era of Robotics.
    • By: Julian Cox
    • Narrated by: Julian Cox
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The innovators dilemma of our age, that sets out to restore the ability to forecast from first principles, in a world superficially changing too fast for traditional expertise to retain relevance. Described variously as extremely serious, densely packed, highly controversial....

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    • The Triumphs and Tragedies
    • By: Rev George Stoddard
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • Shelby, Miles, and Ford: The Triumphs and Tragedies" is a factual book that delves into the lives and careers of Carroll Shelby, Ken Miles, and ...

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    • A Design History of the Car
    • By: Witold Rybczynski
    • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski-hailed as "one of the best writers on design working today" by Publishers Weekly-tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers, and gearheads who created them.

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    • Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
    • By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
    • Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 746 ratings
    • Co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman warns of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and tells us how we might contain them while we have the chance.

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    • Volume 2, Book 1
    • By: J.P. Evans
    • Narrated by: Damien Fletcher
    • Length: 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Do you love cars? Do you love interesting stories about start-ups? Do you love crazy stories about founders and their ups and downs? This book, and the books in this series, are for you....

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    • The American Automobile Industry in World War II
    • By: Dr. Charles K. Hyde
    • Narrated by: Scott Wilcox
    • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II, award-winning historian Charles K. Hyde details the industry's transition to a wartime production powerhouse and some of its notable achievements along the way....

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