Business (8-Dec-1861 — 18-Mar-1947)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Lawrence R. Gustin. Billy Durant: Creator of General Motors. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. 1973. 285pp.

Axel Madsen. The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors. New York: Wiley. 1999. 310pp.

William Pelfrey. Billy, Alfred, and General Motors. New York: AMACOM Books. 2006. 315pp.

Bernard A. Weisberger. The Dream Maker: William C. Durant, Founder of General Motors. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.. 1979. 396pp.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.325)

5. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.195)

6. Webster's American Biographies (p.301)

7. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.208)

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