
Walter Reuther
The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit
Paper – $46
978-0-252-06626-9
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/01/1997
About the Book
Supported by The Walter and May Reuther Memorial FundPreviously published by Basic Books as The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor
Reviews
"Management has no divine rights."--Walter Reuther"A splendid biography of America's most creative and commanding labor leader with an illuminating diagnosis of the vicissitudes and frustrations of the American trade union movement."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
"An elegantly written and unfailingly intelligent portrait of American labor in the mid-twentieth century."--Alan Brinkley, New York Times Book Review
"Sympathetic, yet bluntly critical at key points. . . . Goes beyond biography to offer keen insights into the evolution and more recent decline of both American labor and liberalism."--David Moberg, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"There could be no better context for evaluating where the labor movement has been and the challenges it faces ahead. . . . A meticulously researched, clearly written and quickly paced story."--Jeffrey E. Garten, Washington Post Book World
"A very readable work that anyone with any interest in Walter Reuther, the United Auto Workers or the labor movement would enjoy reading. . . . It reminds us that Walter Reuther was an amazing man. A fearless leader. A great social innovator. And arguably the greatest labor leader in our history."--Douglas Fraser, United Auto Workers President, 1977-82
"An ideal union of scholarship and literature . . . properly places labor leader Walter Reuther in the center of the most important social and political movements of the twentieth century. This is an important book."--Julian Bond