Grand Delusions: The Cosmic Career of John De Lorean [Hardcover]

Hillel Levin (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: The Viking Press (October 11, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067026685X
• ISBN-13: 978-0670266852
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #417,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hillel Levin has been a staff writer and investigative reporter for several publications, including The Nation, New York, Monthly Detroit, Metropolitan Detroit and Playboy. He was executive editor for Metropolitan Detroit and editor for Chicago magazine. He is also the author of Grand Delusions: The Cosmic Career of John Z. DeLorean (Viking, 1984) and When Corruption Was King (Carroll & Graf, 2004). He currently lives with his family in the Chicago area.

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This review is from: Grand Delusions: The Cosmic Career of John De Lorean (Hardcover)

From the shattered fragments of DeLorean's acts and dreams, investigative journalist Hillel Levin - who began to look closely at the truth behind the image a year before anyone else did - has pieced together a fascinating picture of the man behind this contemporary myth. FRom the beginning, DeLorean's flight was fueled by a remarkable talent for financial legerdemain and corporate intrigue. Through meticulous research and interviews with the players in DeLorean's inner circle, Levin tracks the court cases and the lawsuits that accompanied his ascent, discentangles his convoluted and bizarre business schemes, explores the labyrinth of holding companies and paper corporations that channeled huge sums of other people's money into his personal control, and reconstructs the saga of the gull-winged car that, until the last, De Lorean believed would rise, Phoenix-like, from the ashes.

Authoritatively researched from Detroit to Belfast, packed with new information, GRAND DELUSIONS is a riveting, uniquely American story, and a cautionary tale of genius misapplied in the service of a run away ego.