By the early 1960s, Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Baby boomers were taking to the roads in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort, and Ford didnâ€â„...

"[A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining."—Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times"A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and human...

"A touching and absorbing portrait of one of the forgotten heroes of World War II . . . A. J. Baime has given us a memorable portrait not just of an industry going to war but of a remarkable figure who helped to make victory poss...