Ford: Dust and the Glory

When 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 Stripes and with The New York Herald Tribune) and as a racing driver in Europe and South America. He quit the latter occupation in 1960 when, he says, “Dan Gurney went around me on the outside, going about 20 miles an hour faster.” He then spent twenty years with Mercedes-Benz of North America as one of the company’s general managers before retiring and returning to writing and the golf course.