{"product_id":"reckoning","title":"Reckoning","description":"752 pp. \"Powerfully developing his thesis that the complacency and shortsightedness of American workers and their bosses, especially the automakers of Detroit, have led to a decline of industrial know-how so critical that Asian carmakers, particularly the Japanese, have virtually taken over the market, Halberstam tells in panoramic detail a story that is alarming in its implications. Immediately ahead lies a harsh scenario that will see America's standards of living fall appreciablyonly sacrifices will restore our \"greatness.\" This lengthy book with its skilled, dramatic interweaving of two little-known stories -- the inside struggles of the Ford organization (including the firing of Lee Iacocca) in the 1970s and the growth of the Japanese automotive industry, notably Nissan, since the 1950s -- completes the trilogy Halberstam began with The Best and the Brightest and The Powers That Be. Here is fresh and crucially meaningful material researched with notable thoroughness, replete with graphic portraits of top American and Japanese industrialists competing blindly on the one hand and with brilliant cunning on the other. The book is among the most absorbing of recent years, every page contributing to the breathtaking picture of an America that is going to learn to retool or else.\" -- Publishers Weekly CONTENTS: Maxwell's Warning; Amaya Surveys the Oil Age; Detroit's Bleak Winter of 1982; The Founder; The Destroyer; The Victor; The Banker; The Turning Point; The Crushing of Masuda; Tough Little Rich Boy; The Whiz Kids; Ford Goes Public; The Quiet Man; The Gaijin Teachers; The Engineer; The First Victory; Deming Finds an Audience; Henry Kaiser Tries Detroit; The Organizer; The Mustang; The Rivals; The Statue; The Boss; The Pioneer; The Liberation of the Yukata Katayama; The Emperor Shioji; War and Oil; Henry Ford Besieged; The Alienated; Citizen Nader; Datsun Saves; The Struggle at the Top; Big Cars Again; A Vacancy at Chrysler; The Arrivistes; Greathouse in Tokyo; A Man of the System; Hard Times Come Home; The Fall of a Free Trader; Amaya Ends an Era; The Defection of Marvin Runyon; The Hammer and the Nail; A Grateful Worker; Bonus Time Again; The Scion; The New American Hero; The Raiders; OPEC Unravels; The Upstarts; The Jobs Depart; Instant Replay: The Rise of Korea; The Venerables; The Reckoning; The Past Becomes the Future; Author's Note; Bibliography; Index.","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39258903773254,"sku":"2310356","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2310356.jpg?v=1615825644","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/reckoning","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}