<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">"With half the western world at stake,</span> <span class="typestyle"> See Perry on the middle lake.”</span> <span class="typestyle"> —Nineteenth-century ballad</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">At a time of crisis for American labor, an organizer looks back on the turbulent 50-year career that brought him from the shop floor to the presidency of the United Automobile Workers.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> A leading authority picks the top ten. Some of the names still have the power to stir the blood. And some will surprise you.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">He invented modern mass-production. He gave the world the first people’s car, and Americans loved him for it. But, at the moment of his greatest triumph, he turned on the empire he had built, and on the son who would inherit it.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> A tribute to the brash confections our car makers offered the world during a decade when not one American in a thousand had even heard the name Toyota</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">What it was like to be young and on the front lines when Europe mounted an assault on Detroit with small, snarling, irresistible machines that changed the way we drove and thought</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> A century ago the Soo canal was an insignificant ditch in a remote northern wilderness. Today it serves as the busiest industrial highway on earth.</span> </p>
