Rick Wagoner's Why GM Matters

Why GM Matters is a book written about the history of General Motors Company and the struggle they endured during the 2008 economic recession. The book is broken in three parts; the first part explains what went wrong in General Motors Company including the workers that would be affected if General Motors Company had to move their production to another country or if they had to close the doors on General Motors Company and let Toyota buy them out. The book also discusses in the first part, the person most people consider responsible for their struggle throughout the recession, Rick Wagoner. The author in the first part conducted many interviews with General Motors Company employees such as, works that worked in the production plant, workers
The book is made understandable to all audiences and is very convincing when it comes to making the reader believe his conclusions are correct. Doing background checks on some of the author’s conclusions, a lot of the statements align with what actually happened for the car company. The author conducted several interviews with General Motors Company staff to properly tell the reader what actually happened and not the mainstream stuff they may have seen in the news. The arguments the author tries to make are extremely substantial because he used interviews with General Motors Company staff members to validate what he is trying to say which shows the author took a lot of time to make his book as most accurate as possible. The strongest parts of his arguments were in the chapters when he broke down every concept and gave the background of all of it. For example, the chapter titled “Battling for the New Camaro’s soul” where he discussed the history of the Camaro which helped General Motors Company division Cheverolet create a new design for the American muscle car. The weaker parts of his arguments consisted of going off topic, each part of the book broke into specific chapters and a lot of his chapters would mesh together and not be mentioned in the chapters where they seemed most fitting. For example, the chapter titled “Who is Rick Wagoner?” is a chapter about
Holstein’s book Why GM Matters there is a very logical argument about why the car company is important of the United States of America and how it would hurt the American economy if General Motors Company had to shut their doors or be bought out by Toyota. Doing some research on the author it is very apparent he is very knowledgeable about economics and their trends. However, it is also very apparent how biased he is towards General Motors Company. Holstein may not drive a car by General Motors Company, but he is very in favor of keeping the company in America to help boost the economy. He mentions not only the struggles the car company would face if they went out of production, but their workers and how behind that would put America’s economy. Overall, Holstein’s arguments were definitely influenced by his bias towards the car company and keeping it in America, but the topics he did discuss validated his opinion and were historically