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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Percy Barnevik, Alfred P. Sloan, John DeLorean, Roger Smith, Charles Erwin Wilson, Charles F. Kettering, William C. Durant, Rick Wagoner, Ellen J. Kullman, Zora Arkus-Duntov, Frederick Henderson, Harlow Curtice, John J. Raskob, Marina von Neumann Whitman, Henry M. Leland, Edward Stettinius, Jr., Charles Warren Nash, Semon Knudsen, Stanley O'Neal, Gary Dickinson, John Lee Pratt, Ed Cole, Pierre S. du Pont, James Roche, Laurence Hartnett, Roger M. Kyes, William S. Knudsen, Charles T. Fisher, Kent Kresa, Peter Hanenberger, Robert Stempel, John F. Smith, Jr., Owen Nacker, John Sawruk, Carl-Peter Forster, Robert Kessler, Jack Losch, Bo Andersson, Donaldson Brown, Roy W. Hill, Gino Sovran, Nobuyuki Idei, Thomas Murphy, Alexander Rhea, Pete Estes, Robert H. Todd, Arvid Emanuel Kallen, Henry Grady Weaver, Harold Mertz, Dave McLellan, Dave Hill. Excerpt: John Zachary DeLorean (January 6, 1925 - March 19, 2005) was an American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industry, most notably with General Motors, and founder of the DeLorean Motor Company. He was most well known for developing the Pontiac GTO muscle car, the Pontiac Firebird, Pontiac Grand Prix, and the DeLorean DMC-12 sports car, which was later featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future, and for his high profile 1982 arrest on charges of drug trafficking. The alleged drug trafficking was supposedly an attempt to raise funds for his struggling company, which declared bankruptcy that same year. He successfully defended himself against the drug trafficking charges, showing that his alleged involvement was a result of entrapment by federal agents. John Zachary DeLorean was born on January 6, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan, the eldest of four sons of Zachary and Kathryn Pribak DeLorean. DeLorean's father Zaharie was a Romanian immigrant who worked in a mill factor...
