A Road Well Traveled

Profiles of America's Great Automobile Pioneers, Vol. I

By: Daniel Alef

Narrated by: Baron Ron Herron

The great American automotive pioneers were entrepreneurial inventors and visionaries who changed the American landscape and brought us a new national culture. The dawn of the automobile ushered away the ubiquitous horse-drawn carriages and the rutted, dusty and wash-boarded dirt roads they traveled on, and replaced them with cars powered by steam, electricity and gasoline.

These pioneers lifted the veil of isolation that enveloped most pre-twentieth century Americans and made it possible for the average person to travel whenever and wherever he or she pleased. Automobiles changed the concept of transportation and more so, how and where we lived, worked, and played.

Written by award-winning author and syndicated columnist Daniel Alef, who has written more than 300 biographical profiles of America's great tycoons, and narrated by radio personality Baron Ron Herron, A Road Well Traveled offers many lessons to be draw from these pioneers and the fascinating lives they led. Some became fabulously wealthy; others died in obscurity. But they developed America's largest industry in the space of one generation and demonstrated the skills and characteristics necessary to achieve such success. Their audacity, determination, perseverance, work-ethic, and passion were unassailable.

These pioneers were undaunted by any and all obstacles in their path. Their stories are instructive and absorbing. Volume I of A Road Well Traveled tells the fascinating stories of the following automotive pioneers: Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., David D. Buick, William C. Durant, Charles & Frank Duryea, the Fisher brothers, Henry Ford, Charles Goodyear, Charles F. Kettering, Charles W. Nash, Ransom E. Olds, and the Stanley brothers.

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