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Automobile travel BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists Burroughs, John 1837-1921 Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 Ford, Henry 1863-1947 HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Travel Tucker, Preston 1903-1956 United StatesFilter By Subjects
Automobile travel BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists Burroughs, John 1837-1921 Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 Ford, Henry 1863-1947 HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Travel Tucker, Preston 1903-1956 United StatesLehto, Steve
Summary: "In the wake of World War II, the U.S. automobile industry was fully unprepared to meet the growing demands of the public, for whom they had not made any cars for years. In stepped Preston Tucker, a salesman extraordinaire who announced the building of a revolutionary new car: the Tucker '48, the first car in almost a decade to be built fresh from the ground up. Tucker's car, which would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.76 LEHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TUCKER, PRESTON LEHDavis, Wes
Summary: "The epic road trips-and surprising friendship-of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023