The Hardest, Longest Race
Henry Ford and the Cross-Country Contest That Changed America
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The Hardest, Longest Race
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Eric Moskowitz
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From Pulitzer prize–winning journalist Eric Moskowitz comes the riveting story of the first true coast-to-coast automobile race in U.S. history. The Hardest, Longest Race is a fast-paced tale of the gritty and determined drivers who braved hostile terrain, mechanical failure, and, shockingly, sabotage, to take home the gold.
In 1909, America was home to 253 automakers, a landscape of visionaries, schemers, and would-be barons of the new century. But when playboy millionaire M. Robert Guggenheim announced an audacious “Ocean to Ocean” contest from New York City to the Seattle World’s Fair, only three companies were brassy enough to show up at the starting line: Acme, Ford, and Shawmut.
Oddsmakers favored the Acme and Itala, a pricy import also joining the race, while dismissing the pint-sized Ford—a homely little number called the Model T—and the long-shot Shawmut, struggling to survive after a factory fire. In fact, many didn’t believe any of the cars would reach Seattle at all, as they would need to forge a 4,106-mile course of mountain ranges, mud bogs, washed-out wagon bridges, and harrowing canyon trails, long before the era of asphalt highways, seatbelts, and service stations.
But Henry Ford was intent on proving that the Model T could go the distance and beat out the muscular luxury cars—and he didn’t plan to leave it to chance. Indeed, a little over three weeks after the race began, a Ford crossed the line hours ahead of the Shawmut.
Except that victory was a fraud.
The Hardest, Longest Race is a colorful tale of ambition and subterfuge, but it is also a love letter to America at the turn of the Twentieth Century. As a seeming people’s champion—a car for the masses—traverses the vast nation, Moskowitz brings to vivid life the diverse populace and landscape that it would soon transform.
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"Who doesn't love a long-distance automobile race? They've got everything: fearless drivers, big ambitions, unexpected hijinks, tests of mechanical skill, and the perilous, but thrilling open road. With razor-sharp prose and a narrative that leaps forward from the start, Moskowitz takes readers to the summer of 1909, when the newly minted Ford Model T takes on all comers in America's first coast-to-coast contest. It's pedal-to-the-metal to the chequered finish." —Neal Bascomb, New York Times bestselling author of Faster and The Winter Fortress
"Eric Moskowitz takes us back to America at the turn of the 20th century in this brilliant and comprehensively-researched Model T-dominated roll from New York to Seattle. In the days before night-driving, a cross country "motor car" race across America captured our nation's attention. Informative and wildly entertaining, The Hardest, Longest Race is a worthy homage to a contest that changed the way we travel." —Dan Shaughnessy, New York Times bestselling author of Francona and Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics
“Climb in, buckle up (if only there were seatbelts), and be transported to the dawn of the automotive age. The Hardest, Longest Race is a rollicking tale of adventure and ambition, filled with heroic characters—and a few villains—as well as more twists and turns than the first roads linking one coast to another. Eric Moskowitz is a masterful reporter who’s transformed awe-inspiring research into a gripping portrait of the people and preoccupations that reshaped the world.” —Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La and 13 Hours