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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous Ford, Henry 1863-1947 HISTORY / United States / 20th Century LGBTQ+ people 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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.76 LEHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TUCKER, PRESTON LEHParissien, Steven.
Summary: "The car has shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention. Its manufacture introduced mass-production to the world, bringing with it tarmac, suburbs, and car culture. In this comprehensive world history of the most important transport innovation of the modern age, historian Dr. Steven Parissien examines the impact, development, and significance of the automobile over its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.222 PARSnow, Richard F.
Summary: "From an acclaimed popular historian comes a fresh, meticulous, and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T--the machine that defined the dawning age in America. Every century or so, our republic has been changed by a new technology: 170 years ago it was the railroad; today it's the microprocessor. But in the early twentieth century it was the gasoline-combustion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, HENRY SNODavis, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3048 DAVRuPaul
Summary: From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography life-story, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2024