Leo Levine

When Volume 1 of Ford: The Dust and the Glory was first published in 1968, Leo Levine was fresh from a career as a newspaperman (highlighted by stints with the European edition of The Stars and Sfripes and with The New York Herald Tribune) and as a racing driver in Europe and South America. Soon after publication he joined Mercedes-Benz of North America and spent two decades with the company, retiring as one of the company’s general managers in 1989. In late 1998, the Ford Motor Company asked him if he would write Volume 2of the firm's racing history, which has been published at the time of Ford's 100th anniversary of involvement in motorsports. Volume 1 was republished earlier this year.