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The Insane 1909 Coast-to-Coast Race That Changed America, w/ Eric Moskowitz
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Join me for an epic conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Moskowitz about his gripping new book The Hardest, Longest Race: Henry Ford and the Cross-Country Contest That Changed America.
In 1909, a handful of fearless drivers tackled the first true transcontinental automobile race — 4,106 miles from New York to Seattle over terrible roads, mountains, mud bogs, and sabotage. At the center was Henry Ford and his underdog Model T in a story filled with grit, mechanical genius, ambition, deception, and high-stakes drama.
We explore how this wild endurance contest helped launch the automobile age, transformed American life, and revealed the cutthroat origins of the auto industry.
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