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Parissien (director, Compton Verney House Trust, UK; George IV) explores the automobile from its beginnings in the late 19th century, through its 1920s and 1930s refinements, its classical period in the 1950s and 1960s, and on to the rocky decades after the international oil crisis, with global mergers and financial rescues in the 1990s and on through the start of this century. Readers meet the gifted but controversial carmakers Henry Ford, Karl Benz, Henry Royce, and André Citroën; designers Alec Issigonis, André Lefèbvre, and Giovanni Mich...Log In or Sign Up to Read More