The Reckoning

Maxwell's warning —

Amaya surveys the oil age —

Detroit's bleak winter of 1982 —

The founder —

The destroyer —

The victor —

The banker —

The turning point —

The crushing of Masuda —

Tough little rich boy —

The whiz kids —

Ford goes public —

The quiet man —

The Gaijin teachers —

The engineer —

The first victory —

Deming finds an audience —

Henry Kaiser tries Detroit —

The organizer —

The Mustang —

The rivals —

The statue —

The boss —

The pioneer —

The liberation of Yukata Katayama —

The Emperor Shioji —

War and oil —

Henry Ford besieged —

The alienated —

Citizen Nader —

Datsun saves —

The struggle at the top —

Big cars again —

A vacancy at Chrysler —

The arrivistes —

Greathouse in Tokyo —

A man of the system —

Hard times come home —

The fall of a free trader —

Amaya ends an era —

The defection of Marvin Runyon —

The hammer and the nail —

A grateful worker —

Bonus time again —

The scion —

The new American hero —

The raiders —

OPEC unravels —

The upstarts —

The jobs depart —

Instant replay : the rise of Korea —

The venerables —

The reckoning —

The past becomes the future

Author's Note

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