Larger business history collections will want to acquire Ward's analysis of Packard's mid-fifties failure. Ward, a University of Tennessee transportation historian, summarizes the company's early days--from the turn of the century to the 1935 release of the 120, Packard...

Evan P. Ide is the curator of the Larz Anderson Auto Museum and is a member of the Society of Automotive Historians and the New England Museum Association. He is an active automotive historian and has lectured extensively on the history of the Packard Motor Car Company....