Part biography and part corporate history, In the Shadow of Detroit investigates the life and career of Gordon M. McGregor, who founded and led Ford of Canada during the first two decades of the twentieth century. With no automotive background, minimal technical expertise, and only a few years of experience in business, McGregor came to Ford in 1904 from a failing wagonbuilding firm. David Roberts draws from diverse public and private historical sources to chronicle McGregors swift ascension to corporate leader, including how McGregor attached himself to Henry Fords meteoric rise, achieved remarkable success, and became for a time Windsors preeminent industrialist and civic leader. Roberts intertwines McGregors corporate, civic, and personal lives to trace his pioneering role in the automobile industry. Some themes from McGregors career that are considered here include company growth, the technical and cultural concept of the automobile, the impact of automotive transportation, technological reliance on Detroit, parentbranch relations, the effects of border proximity, industrial and political lobbying, labor relations, secondary manufacturing, public involvement, and the Great War. In addition, Roberts probes McGregors oftensubservient relationship with the enigmatic Henry Ford and examines how McGregor drew praise and political ire in calling for regional governance in the "Border Cities" opposite Detroit. In the years before his premature death, McGregor and his company...

Binding: Hardcover;338 pages; Publisher: Wayne State University Press; Classification: BGB; Weight: 780 g; Dimensions: 238 x 161 x 25

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