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Politicians, voters, executives, and employees all want the answer to one question: How can America compete with cheap foreign labor, and restore skilled, well-paying jobs to our economy? American Drive answers that question.An executive with nearly thirty years in the trenches of the hard-nosed Detroit automobile industry, Richard E. "Dick" Dauch had long dreamed of running his own manufacturing company. From his first job on the plant floor at General Motors to his crucial role in helping to rescue Chrysler from the brink of bankruptcy, Dauch focused passionately, and relentlessly, on quality, productivity, and flexibility in manufacturing. In 1993 he took on the challenge of his life, buying a lagging axle supply and parts business from GM, along with five rusting, unprofitable, union-controlled, near-decrepit plants in the heart of a crime-ridden Detroit and a deteriorating environment in Buffalo, New York.
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I spent 40 years writing my way through Washington, D.C. and now I am writing my own way. I post an amusing Tweet every day and a new book every couple of years, and frequently write book reviews for The Washington Post. My account of how President Lincoln handled the great Sioux uprising of 1862, the bloodiest Native American upheaval, in the midst of the Civil War sparked renewed interest in an important historical event and at least two more books on the topic. My previous entry, "Conversations With The Devil," was intended to stimulate reconsideration of the plight of Old Nick, our much misunderstood devil. But now I have taken a giant step beyond with "For Love Of A Dangerous Girl," a true story of the brave young Frenchwoman who assassinated the radical leader Jean Paul Marat and Adam Lux, a member of the National Convention, who saw her on the way to the guillotine, was mesmerized by her beauty and courage, and defied the radical regime to send him to join her in death. Now there, folks, is a tale of real love.
