DRIVE!: HENRY FORD, GEORGE SELDEN, AND THE RACE TO INVENT THE AUTO AGE

Book ID/图书代码： 01240015B81843

English Summary/英文概要： Ask nearly anyone what Henry Ford invented and they’ll give you two answers: the automobile and the assembly line. The truth is that he invented neither. Here, acclaimed historian Lawrence Goldstone rewrites the birth of the automobile, setting the record straight on Henry Ford and giving credit where it’s long been due. Revelatory and captivating, Drive! features the innovators, entrepreneurs, and daredevils who steered the automobile through its wild early days--from Karl Benz and Marcel Renault to Ransom Olds and the Dodge brothers to Camille du Gast and Barney Oldfield to the man, forgotten by history, who actually held the original patent on the technology at the heart of it all--and along the way teaches invaluable business lessons.

Goldstone has won accolades for each of the numerous books he’s written over the years, particularly for BIRDMEN. DRIVE! delivers the same astute and surprising history and narrative quality with numerous photos to illustrate relevant mechanical innovations and to celebrate the story’s outsize personalities.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 无论向谁询问福特发明了什么，他们都会给你两个答案：汽车和装配线。真相是他没有发明任何一个。在这里，著名的历史学家劳伦斯•哥德斯通重写了汽车的诞生，纠正了对亨利•福特的误解，并给出了充分信任的理由。《驱动！》是富有启示性和魅力的，重点描写了创新者，企业家和铤而走险的人，他们驾驶汽车经历了早期生活--从卡尔•苯和马塞尔•雷诺到兰塞姆•奥兹和道奇兄弟到卡米尔•杜•加斯特和巴尼•奥德菲尔德再到被历史所遗忘的男人，却是他抓住了原始专利技术的中心，并一路上教着宝贵的商业经验。

戈德斯通多年类写的许多书都赢得了赞誉，尤其是《鸟人》。《驱动！》提供了同样精确和惊人的历史，以及叙事品质，用众多的照片来说明相关机械的革新，展示了故事与众不同的个性。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：“In suitably fast-paced prose, Goldstone tells the enthralling story of the fraught early days of the ‘Horseless Age.’ The cast in the high-stakes battle includes brilliant engineers, Gilded Age tycoons, and reckless daredevils both on the track and in the boardroom—a heady mix of motors, money, and testosterone. Silicon Valley’s billionaires have nothing on these guys for either ingenuity or ruthlessness.”—Ross King, author of Brunelleschi’s Dome

“Lawrence Goldstone pulls back the curtain on a totally new world long hidden from view about the unsung heroes, the forgotten men behind the most consequential invention of the 20th century, the automobile. In doing so, Goldstone synthesizes auto history and extensive scholarship to create a refreshing, original account, a bold, powerfully argued retelling of the history of the automobile. Goldstone takes Henry Ford out of the context we thought he should be in and presents Ford as someone entirely new, an even more curious and riveting man. A lucid, intelligent page turner, Drive! will enthrall and enlighten you.”—Elizabeth MacDonald, senior stocks editor, FOX Business

“Lawrence Goldstone’s latest book, Drive!, is an exquisite treasure. Titanic court battles, personal feuds among robber barons, hair-raising, death defying early automobile races, and a slice of history, beautifully researched and written, that shaped the country in the early twentieth century, there is something in this book for all lovers of an epic, transformative struggle.”—Dale Oesterle, Reese Chair, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University

“Drive! cruises backrooms, boardrooms and courtrooms as pioneer racers compete for their place in motoring history. Hang on!”—Rick Hughey, International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen

“Business history as you have never read before, Lawrence Goldstone tells the important but now forgotten legal fight over the patent for the automobile. With more plot twists and turns than a murder mystery and a cast of well-known industrial titans, Drive! takes the reader down the road to the dawning age of the automobile when Henry Ford’s dream almost turned into a nightmare.”—James McGrath Morris, author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power

“Utterly compelling. Filled with fascinating stories and larger-than-life characters, Drive! is a joy ride. I’ll never get behind the wheel of my car again without thinking about Drive!”—Howard Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and American Lightning

About the Author/作者介绍： 劳伦斯•哥德斯通是十几本小说和非小说的作者或合著者，包括最近的《鸟人：莱特兄弟、格伦斯和控制天空的战斗》。他是“新美国写作奖”得主，他的作品已被《纽约时报》，《多伦多之星》，《沙龙》和《斯莱特》等杂志介绍。他和他的妻子南希住在长岛。

Lawrence Goldstone is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently BIRDMEN: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies. The winner of a New American Writing award, his work has been profiled in The New York Times, the Toronto Star, Salon, and Slate, among others. He lives on Long Island with his wife Nancy.

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