SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books

Adams, James Truslow. Big Business in a Democracy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1946.

Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. New York: Harper & Row, 1931.

Bailey, L. Scott, ed. General Motors: The First Seventy-five Years of Transportation Products. Princeton, NJ: Automobile Quarterly, 1983.

Beasley, Norman. Knudsen: A Biography. New York: Whittlesey House/ McGraw-Hill, 1947.

Brinkley, Douglas. Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company and a Century of Progress. New York: Viking Press, 2003.

Brown, Peter, ed. American Automobile Centennial 100 Year Almanac. Detroit: Automotive News, 1996.

Chandler, Alfred D. Giant Enterprise: Ford, General Motors and the Automobile Industry, Sources and Readings. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1964.

Chandler, Alfred D., and Stephen Salsbury. Pierre S. du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

Chrysler, Walter P., with Boyden Sparkes. Life of an American Workman. New York: Curtis Publishing, 1938.

Collier, Peter, and David Horowitz. The Fords: An American Epic. New York: Summit Books, 1987.

Cormier, Frank, and William J. Eaton. Reuther. Princeton, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1970.

Crabb, Richard. Birth of a Giant: The Men and Incidents That Gave America the Motorcar. Philadelphia: Chilton, 1969.

Cray, Ed. Chrome Colossus. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.

Curcio, Vincent. Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Dale, Ernest. Readings in Management: Landmarks and New Frontiers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.

Donner, Frederick. The Worldwide Industrial Enterprise. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.

Drucker, Peter. Adventures of a Bystander. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.

——. Concept of the Corporation. New York: Transaction Publishers, 1995.

Dunham, Terry, and Lawrence Gustin. The Buick: A Complete History. Princeton, NJ: Automobile Quarterly, 1997.

Durant, Margery. My Father. New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1929.

Earley, Helen, and James Walkinshaw. Setting the Pace: Oldsmobile’s First Hundred Years. Lansing, MI: Oldsmobile Division, General Motors Corporation, 1996.

Evans, Harold. The American Century. New York: Knopf, 1998.

——. They Made America. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004.

Farber, David. Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Fine, Sidney. Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936–1937. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1969.

Folsom, Burton. Empire Builders: How Michigan Entrepreneurs Helped Make America Great. Traverse City, MI: Rhodes and Easton, 1998.

Ford, Henry, with Samuel Crowther. My Life and Work. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1923.

Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954.

Gavrilovich, Peter, and Bill McGraw, eds. The Detroit Almanac: 300 Years of Life in the Motor City. Detroit: Detroit Free Press, 2000.

Gould, Jean, and Lorena Hickock. Walter Reuther: Labor’s Rugged Individualist. Boston: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1972.

Gustin, Lawrence. Billy Durant: Creator of General Motors. Flushing, MI: Craneshaw Publishers, 1984.

Halberstam, David. The Fifties. New York: Villard Books, 1993.

——. The Reckoning. New York: Morrow, 1986.

Jenkins, Alan. The Twenties. New York: Universe Books, 1974.

Ketchum, Richard. The Borrowed Years, 1938–1941: America on the Way to War. New York: Random House, 1989.

Klein, Maury. Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Klingaman, William A. The Year of the Great Crash, 1929. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

Kuhn, Arthur. GM Passes Ford, 1918–1938. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986.

Lacey, Robert. Ford: The Men and the Machine. Boston: Little, Brown, 1986.

Lichtenstein, Nelson. Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Lochner, Louis. Always Expect the Unexpected. New York: Macmillan Company, 1956.

——. Tycoons and Tyrants: German Industry from Hitler to Adenauer.

New York: Henry Regnery Co., 1954.

Madsen, Axel. The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors. New York: Wiley, 1999.

May, George S. A Most Unique Machine: The Michigan Origins of the American Automobile Industry. Grand Rapids, MI: W. E Eerdmans, 1975.

McDonald, John A. A Ghost’s Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan’s “My Years with General Motors.” Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.

McManus, Theodore, and Norman Beasley. Man, Money, and Motors. New York: Macmillan Company, 1929.

Mortimer, Wyndham. Organize! My Life as a Union Man. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.

Nitschke, Robert. The General Motors Legal Staff, 1920–1947. Self-published, 1989.

Olson, Sidney. Young Henry Ford: A Picture History of the First Forty Years. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963.

Pearson, Henry G. Son of New England: James Jackson Storrow. Boston: Little, Brown, 1932.

Pound, Arthur. The Turning Wheel. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934.

Rae, John. The American Automobile, a Brief History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Scharchburg, Richard. W. C. Durant: The Boss. Flint, MI: [Self-published] Scharchburg Archives, Kettering University, 1979.

Sloan, Alfred P., Jr., with Boyden Sparkes. Adventures of a White Collar Man. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941.

Sloan, Alfred P. Jr., with John McDonald. My Years with General Motors. New York: Doubleday, 1963.

Thomas, Gordon, and Max Morgan-Witts. The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. New York: Doubleday, 1979.

Walker, Charles, and Robert Guest. The Man on the Assembly Line. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952.

Weisberger, Bernard A. The Dream Maker: William C. Durant, Founder of General Motors. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.

Newspaper and Magazine Articles

“Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., the Chairman.”Fortune, April 1938.

Allen, Frederick Lewis. “Morgan the Great.”Life, April 25, 1949.

Ashdown, William. “Confessions of an Automobilist.”The Atlantic Monthly, June 1925.

Atwood, Albert. “The Great Bull Market.”The Saturday Evening Post, January 12, 1929.

Barton, Bruce. “The Future of American Business.”The American Magazine, June 1929.

Brewster, Mike. “Billy Durant: Greasing Detroit’s Wheels.” BusinessWeek, April 27, 2004.

Child, Richard. “Hoover, or Some Other?” The Saturday Evening Post, March 16, 1929.

Crowther, Samuel. “Everybody Ought to Be Rich: Interview with John Jacob Raskob.”Ladies’ Home Journal, August 1929.

Garsten, Ed. “Ford Shapes the Work Place.”Detroit News, May 5, 2003.

“General Motors.”Fortune, December 1938.

“General Motors II: Chevrolet.”Fortune, January 1939.

“General Motors III: How to Sell Automobiles.”Fortune, February 1939.

“General Motors IV: A Unit in Society.”Fortune, March 1939.

Howes, Daniel. “20th Century Life Shaped by Ford’s Vision.” Detroit News, June 9, 2003.

Iacocca, Lee. “Builders and Titans, Henry Ford.”Time, December 7, 1998.

John, W. A. P. “That Man Durant.”Motor, January 1923.

Marchand, Roland. “The Corporation Nobody Knew: Bruce Barton, Alfred Sloan, and the Founding of the General Motors Family.”Business History Review, Winter 1991.

“Mr. Raskob’s Poor Man’s Investment Trust.”The Literary Digest, June 1, 1929.

Noyes, Alexander D. “The Stock Market Panic.”Current History, December 1929.

Raff, Donald M. “Making Cars and Making Money in the Interwar Automobile Industry.”Business History Review, Winter 1991.

Rothenberg, Al. “The Skinflint of Flint: C. S. Mott Gave Away Millions . . . but He Watched his Pennies.”Ward’s Auto World, May 1, 1996.

——. “Witness to Automotive History: Up Close and Personal with Those Who Lived It.”Ward’s Auto World, May 1, 1996.

Sparkes, Boyden. “A Career in Wall Street.” The Saturday Evening Post, March 8, 1930.

“What American Labor Wants.”American Mercury, February 1944.

“Will We Succumb to Collective Begging?”The Bomber, UAW-CIO Local 731, May 4, 1945.

Other Documents

Annual Reports, 1919–1947, General Motors Corporation.

Development of Installment Purchasing. Pamphlet, John J. Raskob, Chairman, General Motors Finance Committee, General Motors Corporation, December 1926.

GM World, General Motors’ in-house monthly magazine for non-U.S. employees, 1922–1946.

General Motors and Its Labor Policy. Pamphlet, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., General Motors Corporation, January 5, 1937.

The General Motors Institute of Technology. Pamphlet, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., General Motors Corporation, March 1929.

The General Motors Strike: The Facts and Their Implications. Pamphlet, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., April 18, 1946.

General Motors and the Strike Conference. Pamphlet, February 8, 1937.

General Motors Is Not in Politics. Pamphlet, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., General Motors Corporation, August 1928.

How Members of the General Motors Family Are Made Partners in General Motors. Pamphlet, General Motors Corporation, March 12, 1927.

Installment Selling: A Study in Consumers’ Credit with Special Reference to the Automobile. Pamphlet, John J. Raskob, Chairman, General Motors Finance Committee, General Motors Corporation, November 1927.

An Introduction to the Accessory Companies. Pamphlet, Pierre S. du Pont, General Motors Corporation, February 1, 1922.

A Message to Our Employees on Progress of the Strike Situation. Pamphlet, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., General Motors Corporation, January 27, 1937.

North American Vehicle Sales History, 1910–2000 Calendar Years. Global Market Data Management Staff, General Motors Corporation, 2000.

Pricing Policy in Relation to Financial Control. Pamphlet, Donaldson Brown, General Motors Corporation, 1924.

“Report on the Motor Vehicle Industry.” Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939.

The Story of General Motors. Pamphlet, General Motors Corporation, 1948.

The Story of the General Motors Strike. Pamphlet, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., General Motors Corporation, April 1937.

“A Study of the Antitrust Laws.” Hearings before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, U. S. Senate, S. Res. 61, Parts 1-8, General Motors, December 9, 1955.

To All Employees in General Motors Factories. Pamphlet letter, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., General Motors Corporation, October 15, 1934.

The Trained Man Wins. Pamphlet, General Motors Corporation, 1926.

Trial Proceedings and Exhibits, DuPont-General Motors Antitrust Case, U.S. Supreme Court, 1954. The Worker in General Motors. Pamphlet, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., December 1937.

We Sat Down with the Strikers and General Motors. Pamphlet, Hartley W. Barclay, United Automobile Workers of America, 1956.