Author: Paul Ingrassia File Type: epub With an updated Afterword by the author This is the epic saga of the American automobile industrys rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroits Big Three car companiesonce proud symbols of prosperitythrough bankruptcy. With unprecedented access, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Ingrassia takes us from factory floors to small-town dealerships to Detroits boardrooms to the White House. Ingrassia answers the big questions Was Detroits self-destruction inevitable? What were the key turning points? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves did? Complete with a new Afterword providing fresh insights into the continuing upheaval in the auto industrythe travails of Toyota, the revolving-door management and IPO at General Motors, the unexpected progress at Chrysler, and the Obama administrations stake in Detroits recoveryCrash Course addresses a critical question America bailed out GM, but who will bail out America?**

Author: Daniel Spaulding File Type: pdf Hans-Jurgen Krahl died in a car crash in 1970, at the age of twenty-seven. By that time he had weathered the rise and decline of the Socialist German Student Union (Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund, or SDS), among whose ranks he was, arguably, both the most sophisticated theorist and, after Rudi Dutschke, the most incendiary orator. The SDS had been founded shortly after World War II as the youth wing of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) of Germany. As the latter moved towards the center, however, the SDS radicalized, eventually leading to expulsion from its parent organization in 1961. It would soon become the most important student group in Germany, even as its official policy shifted further towards revolutionary Marxism.sup id=rf1-3327a href=httpsviewpointmag.com20140929hans-jurgen-krahl-from-critical-to-revolutionary-theory#fn1-3327 title=A pivotal moment came with the entry of Rudi Dutschke and Bernd Rabehl in 1965. Both were members of Subversive Aktion, a Munich-based group that itself had origins in an earlier artistic-political collective, Gruppe SPUR. Between 1959 and 1961 Gruppe SPUR was the German wing of the Situationist International. rel=footnote1asu Krahls historical significance lies in the role he played as a leader of the SDS in the few years immediately before and after 1967-68, when the West German student movement reached its highest pitch. Yet his theoretical contributions are by no means inconsiderable nor, in any case, can they be divorced from the practical political activities with which Krahl was occupied at the sametime.