A shocking exposé of Volkswagen’s fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal.
In mid-2015, Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world’s largest automaker. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million cars that deceived emissions-testing mechanisms. By early 2017, VW had settled with American regulators and car owners for $20 billion, with additional lawsuits still looming. In Faster, Higher, Farther, Jack Ewing rips the lid off the conspiracy. He describes VW’s rise from “the people’s car” during the Nazi era to one of Germany’s most prestigious and important global brands, touted for being “green.” He paints vivid portraits of Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piëch and chief executive Martin Winterkorn, arguing that the corporate culture they fostered drove employees, working feverishly in pursuit of impossible sales targets, to illegal methods. Unable to build cars that could meet emissions standards in the United States honestly, engineers were left with no choice but to cheat. Volkswagen then compounded the fraud by spending millions marketing “clean diesel,” only to have the lie exposed by a handful of researchers on a shoestring budget, resulting in a guilty plea to criminal charges in a landmark Department of Justice case. Faster, Higher, Farther reveals how the succeed-at-all-costs mentality prevalent in modern boardrooms led to one of corporate history’s farthest-reaching cases of fraud―with potentially devastating consequences. 8 pages of illustrations

Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal

Business & Money

Ewing, Jack

Biography & History

W.W.Norton&Company

“A rich history of a company whose cars, for better and worse, have touched millions of lives, a character study of a brilliant but deeply flawed leader, and a case study in how a corporate culture can turn toxic.” ―Bethany McLean, New York Times Book Review
 Faster, Higher, Farther chronicles a corporate scandal that rivals those at Enron and Lehman Brothers―one that will cost Volkswagen more than $22 billion in fines and settlements. Through meticulous reporting, New York Times correspondent Jack Ewing documents why VW felt compelled to install “defeat devices” in diesel vehicles that unlawfully lowered CO2 levels during emissions testing, and how the fraud was committed, covered up, and finally detected. Faster, Higher, Farther is a briskly written account of unrivaled corporate greed. Updated with the latest information and a new afterword by the author. 8 pages of illustrations

Faster, Higher, Farther: How One of the World's Largest Automakers Committed a Massive and Stunning Fraud

Faster, Higher, Farther: The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal

Accounting

Corgi

Small-time, small town Idaho p.i. Skoog is hired to find the missing husband of a carnival sideshow freak. In the course of his investigation, Skoog puts his lifeon the line to uncover a myriad of secrets, including robbery and murder.

Freak-Out

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Xlibris, Corp.

In the last century, the south-central Pacific coast of Costa Rica evolved from a wild, remote strip of land to one sparsely populated by homesteaders who cleared the forests to live off the land. Now it is a popular tourist destination filled with diverse wildlife in the abundant rainforests. Join author Jack Ewing as he reveals the ever-changing and fascinating history of the area and recounts his 45-year journey from managing a cattle ranch to developing Hacienda Barú into a National Wildlife Refuge. And discover how his efforts with the Path of the Tapir Biological Corridor may one day bring jaguars and tapirs back to the area.

Where Tapirs and Jaguars Once Roamed: Ever-Evolving Costa Rica

History

Americas

PixyJack Press, Incorporated

Monkeys Are Made of Mangos: Colorful, Captivating Costa Rica

Monkeys Are Made of Chocolate: A Collection of stories from the Jungle of Southwestern Costa Rica

Travel

Central America

Impresos Elimar S.A.

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