William Fisk Harrah: The Life and Time of a Gambling Magnate

MANDEL, Leon

Biographies & Memoirs

DOUBLEDAY

Fast Lane Summer: American Motor Racing

An awe inspiring and thought provoking book from a legend in automotive journalism.

Sports & Outdoors

Simon&Schuster

<p>Dust jacket notes: "You spend more time with it than you do with your best friend. It is more likely to kill you than the Russians, the Chinese, or the mass murderer down the block. It costs you more during your lifetime than anything except your house. And if you are an average American, you know less about it than you know about politics. Reading Leon Mandel's brilliant book about the automobile is like discovering the hidden - and ofttimes frightening - engine in the heart of America. This book is about automobility, the fact of our national addiction and its consequences, brought home through such examples as the surgeon who drives his Porsche to work at 100 mph, then spends a hectic shift in the emergency room treating injuries that mainly result from highway accidents; a corporate consultant who has found that giving up ownership of an automobile increases his mobility; a female ex-racing driver who discusses the sexual implications of our driving habits; and dozens of others who hold a mirror up to the American highway and garage. In tracing the history of our quest for mobility, and in explaining the results, Driven both defines our problems and offers us choices. Since the evidence shows we drive far less well than Europeans, we can learn how to learn. We think we're wise to Detroit's marketing maneuvers; Driven introduces us to reality, and makes it possible to become a rational buyer of an automobile. We wish to be good citizens, and have been hoodwinked into believing that relatively pollution-free cars are bad mileage performers; the truth is that there are cars available today that pass California's tough emission standards and provide excellent miles-per-gallon performance. Mandel's State of the Car Message also points the way to our mobile future, if we want one. Driven is at once frightening and eye-opening, alarming and optimistic, a work of social psychology that is much needed now."</p>

Driven: The American four-wheeled love affair

STEIN AND DAY.

American cars: From Harrah's Automobile Collection

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Stewart. Tabori & Chang

<p>Rarely do we get a chance to capture the history of our automotive passion in words and pictures that are insightful and, very often, magic. Rarely do we get an incisive behind-the-scenes look into the lives of our heroes, an insightful examination of the toys that bring us joy, and a critical scrutiny demanded of an industry rife with scoundrels and hooligans. Rarely, yes, but it does happen. Leon Mandel's The Jaundiced Eye captures the essence of a life spent around the people, places, and things that formed the automotive world during its most exciting years. The book is a drop-topped, high-speed ride through the countryside of an industry that powered a nation. The Jaundiced Eye is a rich compilation of stories, profiles, and select book chapters that car enthusiasts, automotive historians, and lovers of the written word have been denied for too long. "Beyond the wit, charm and passion in Leon Mandel's writing was always another crucial element: truth. And I've always said, you gotta love a guy who tells it like it is. This collection is proof positive of that." -Bob Lutz, GM Vice Chairman "Talk about inspiring; twenty profanity-laced minutes in his office and I chucked a high-paying engineering job to follow him into a life of journalistic poverty. And I'd do it again." -Patrick Bedard, Formerly Car &amp; Driver "Leon Mandel, a writer whose subject happens to be cars, always rewards anyone interested in either writing or cars." -Denise McCluggage</p>

The Jaundiced Eye: Forty Years of Writing, Reporting and Ranting from Autoweek' S Publisher Emeritus

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Octane Press

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