Automotive History

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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 24,856 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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    • 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 1,622 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 1,480 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 765 ratings
    • We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services.

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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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    • 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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    • The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—and How It Will Reshape Our World
    • By: Lawrence D. Burns, Christopher Shulgan
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • In Autonomy, former GM executive and current advisor to the Google self-driving car project Lawrence Burns offers a sweeping history of the race to make the driverless car a reality....

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