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RAYMOND HENRI DIETRICH

AUTOMOTIVE ARCHITECT OF THE CLASSIC ERA & BEYOND

Necah Stewart Furman, Ph.D

ISBN 978-1-956309-09-6

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Publication: 30 NOVEMBER 2023
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ISBN: 9781956309096
Price: £185
Binding: Hardback

Format: 254 x 290 mm
Extent: 640 pp
Illustrated: Fully illustrated

Thema: WGCB Cars

This biography of Raymond Henri Dietrich, known as “the
automotive architect of the classic era,” is not only an
entertaining and well-researched societal history, telling
the Dietrich story within the context of the times from the
turn-of-the century through the eight decades of his life, it
is also replete with over 500 photographs of art on
wheels—the elegant Dietrich-designed classic cars of the
1920s and 1930s. Car collectors and restorers will find the
“Cavalcade of Dietrich Designwork” chapter to be a
treasure-trove of 78 archival-type automotive photographs
tracing the development of Dietrich’s extraordinary talent
SHORT DISCOUNT TITLE: MAXIMUM 30% and innovations. Historians and auto enthusiasts alike will
appreciate how this handsomely illustrated book evokes a
sense of time and place as the author skillfully transports
the reader from one era to another in the life of a fascinating
man who left such an impressive legacy of classic car
design. This biography will interest both the general reader
and the car collector.

Pulitzer nominee and prize-winning author of six books and
many articles and reviews, Necah Stewart Furman,
Ph.D., was selected by the Dietrich family as his
biographer. Granted numerous hours of taped interviews,
she was also given access to Dietrich’s personal business
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employs his engaging literary style in writing the
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