Drive. Story atbecame the that point in their lives. Susan how did the idea come to you for telling the story at this time . Jeff when i try to do when i write nonfiction books is to go everywhere where the people i write about went. I always use my car. Id rather drive and that way you really get a sense of place. Somewhere along the line in the 30,000 or so miles i drive every year i started wondering how we got to be a country, a culture where we take for granted and we can get in a car and go anywhere we want to. I thought it would be a good idea to write a book about that and as always happens when you look into history, theres more to it than you ever expected. Susan your book begins and ends with someone thats a minor character, jeff bixby. Who was he and why was he interesting to you . Jeff one of the things that struck me as i researched the book was the vagabonds and edison and whoever may be with him on that trip could literally change the lives of anyone they met. They were
Susan we want to listen to just a little bit of jeff bixbys music so people can get a sense of what interested ford and edison. Susan just a little bit of the music. Would a lot of americans be listening to music of this type of this era . I would rather drive you get a sense of place. Somewhere along the line in the 30,000 or so miles i drive every year i started wondering how we got to be a country, a culture where we take for granted we can go anywhere we want to. Since i didnt know i thought it would be a good idea to write a book about that. Your book begins and ends with a somewhat minor character. Who was he and why was he interesting to you . Jeff was an elderly country fiddler working out of michigan playing barn dances and so forth, and that was pretty much the height of his musical career. He was listed in local archives as a shoe maker. Henry ford had heard about his sic and unexpectedly in 1923 his wife opens their door in this little tiny isolated town and there stands he
What is the story you tell . The story, to tell us how america morphed into a car culture to everyone wanting to get into cars and go places. I had not known until i started researching that henry ford and Thomas Edison were at the forefront of this. Idea come to you for telling the story at this time . This is my 22nd book. What i do when i try to do when i write nonfiction books is to go everywhere where the people i write about went. Id rather drive and that way you really get a sense of place. Somewhere along the line in the 30,000 or so miles i drive every year i started wondering how we got to be a country, a culture where we take for granted and we can get in a car and go anywhere we want to. I thought it would be a good idea to write a book about that and as always happens when you look into history, theres more to it than you ever expected. Susan your book begins and ends with someone thats a minor character, jeff bixby. We are going to show his picture on screen. Who was he a
Products that were set to go into effect next week, but the question, heather, does this go far enough for the markets for now . Well, obviously the markets soaring over 300 points, i know they pulled back from the high at the close. It does go far enough for now that we are delaying the implementation of the tariffs on october 15, and then President Trump has said before, hes going to save christmas, and not have the december 15th tariffs imposed but im interested to hear what curtis has to say of these three issues of currency manipulation, of ip theft and joint ventures and buy more products which i know they are that those will be if theres more to come. David well bring our guest in in just a second but adam what do you think . Quick read of this and well need time to get a bigger read and of course its not even done its a truce, a pause, its a we will work on this in the coming weeks and months is that this is a deal we could have had many many months ago. I think the market woul
Expected, the question is how much. And bigtech in the cross hairs, Senate Committee holding antitrust hearing today. Companies expected to face tough questions from both sides, plus, President Trump ripping the New York Times once again, a lot to go at today including more problems for wework and half billion dollar deal to bring seinfeld to netflix, Varney Company begins right now. David day 2 of gm strike, Kristina Partsinevelos from picket line in arlington, texas, what are you hearing about the status of the negotiations . Well, right now its been pretty tense, went into the evening, im at the arlington plant over here, over 4,000 workers are focused primarily on larger vehicles, suvs, chevy tahoe, for example, the issue, a lot of Sticking Points, the one we were told by source that issue mexico, Union Workers that want the production to come back to the United States, more Jobs Available for workers and several talking points i guess you should say the laundry list of items that