前言
1.Letter from W.C.Durant to Margery Durant—Fitzhugh Green，December 15，1941，Durant Collection，Scharchburg Archives，Kettering University.
2.Alfred P.Sloan，Jr.，with John McDonald，My Years with General Motors(New York：Doubleday，1963)，P.XX.
[第1章]
1.Peter Gavrilovich and Bill McGraw，eds.，The Detroit Almanac(De—troit：Detroit Free Press，2000)，P.289.
2.General Motors annual repo，1919.
3.Arthur Pound，The TurningeeZ(New York：Doubleday，Doran&Company，1934)，PP.177—178.
4.Walter P.Chrysler，with Boyden Sparkes，Life of an American Workman(New York：Curtis Publishing，1938)，P.143.
5.Chrysler，Life ofan American Workman，PP.156—157.
6.Alfred P.Sloan，Jr.，with Boyden Sparkes，Adventures ofa White Collar Man(New York：Doubleday，Doran&Company，1941)，pp.116—117.
7.Letter from Alfred P.Sloan，Jr.to W.C.Durant，August 22，1919，Du—rant Collection，Scharchburg Archives，Keuefing University.
8.Ibid.
9.Sloan，Adventures ofa White CollarMan，PP.119—120.
[第2章]
1.Margery Durant，MY Father(New York~Knickerbocker Press，1929)，P.vii.
2.Durant，MY Father，PP.23—24.
3.Ibid，PP.24—25.
4.Ibid，PP.30—31.
5.Letter to William W.Crapo，August 13，1863，Henry Howland CrapoC—ollection，Michigan Historical Collections，University of Michigan，Ann Arbor，as quoted by Richard Scharchburg in his self—published book.C.Durant：The Boss，1979，now on file at the Scharchburg Archives，Kettering University.
6.Letter to Winiam W.Crapo，July 30，1868，Henry Howland Crapo Col—lection.
7.Durant，My Father，P.18.
8.Untitled narrative and notes，Durant Collection，Scharchburg Archive，Kettering University.
9.Ibid.
10.Ibid.
11.Ibid.
12.Ibid.
[第3章]
1.这些文件中，有一些还保存在联邦政府针对杜邦公司提起的反托拉斯案件的审判档案中。联邦政府指控该公司在向通用汽车公司出售油漆时，由于它也是通用汽车公司股份最大的持有人，所以获得了不正当的好处。案件开始于1949年，直到1954年仍未审结。最高法院在那年裁决杜邦公司败诉，杜邦公司应清算其在通用汽车公司中的股权。
2.John A.McDonald，A Ghost"s Memoir(Cambridge，MA：M：IT Press，2002)，PP.41—42，includes a discussion of Alfred Chandler and the researchteam’S role in Sloan’s book.
3.McDonald，A Ghost"s Memoir，P.4.
4.Ibid.PP.25—26.
5.Alfred P.Sloan，Jr.，with John McDonald，My Years with General Motors(New York：Doubleday，1963)，P.17.
6.Alfred P.Sloan Jr.，with Boyden Sparkes，Adventures ofaite Collar Man(New York：Doubleday，Doran&Company，1941)，P.5.
7.Sloan，Adventures ofa White Collar Man。PP.7—8.
8.Ibid.PP.13—14.
9.Ibid，P.21.
10.Ibid.PP.21—22.
11.Letter from Alfred Sloan to L G.Kaufman，May 16，1916，Durant Col—lection，Scharchburg Archives，Kettering University.
12.An Introduction to the Accessory Companies，Pierre S.du Pont’，General Motors Corporation，February 1，1922.
13.Sloan，Adventures ofa Whhe Collar Man，P.25.
14.Ibid.PP.26—27.
15.1bid，P.31.
[第4章]
1.Richard Crabb，Birth ofa Giant(Philadelphia：Chihon，1969)，P.28.
2.Crabb，Birth of a Giant，P.31.
3.Ibid，P.46.
4.As quoted in Arthur Pound，The TurningeeZ(New York：Doubleday，Doran&Company，1934)，pp.52—53.
5.New York Tribune，November 7，1901，as quoted in Crabb，Birth of a G／ant.PP.66—67.
6.Oldsmobile ad copy reprinted in Pound，e TurningZ，pp.61—62.
7.Alfred P.Sloan，Jr.，with Boyden Sparkes，Adventures ofa Whhe Collar Man(New York：Doubleday，Doran&Company，1941)，P.33.
8.See especially Robert Lacey，Ford：The Men and the Machine(Boston：Little Brown，1986)；Peter Collier and David Horowitz，The Fords：An Ameri—cart Epic(New York：Summit Books，1987)；and Douglas Brinkley，Wheelsfor the World(New York：Viking Press，2003).
9.Lacey，Ford：The Men and the Machine，P.11.
10.Henry F0rd，with Samuel Crowther，MY Life and Work(New York：Doubleday，Doran，1923)，PP.23—24.
11.Lacey：The Men and the Machine，P.40.
12.Ford，My Life and Work，P.36.
13.Lacey，F0rd：The Men and the Machine，P.49.
14.Collier and Horowitz，The Fords：An American Epic，PP.37—38.
15.Lacey，：The Men and the Machine，P.60.
16.Sloan，Adventures ofa White Collar Man，PP.37—39.
17.Alfred P.Sloan，Jr.，with John McDonald，Years with General Mo-tors(New York：Doubleday，1963)，P.20.
18.Sloan，My Years with General Motors，PP.41—42.
[第5章]
1.Margery Durant，My Father(New York：Knickerbocker Press，1929)，PP.3—9.
2.Letters between William C.Durant and Charles Nash，January17，1942，and March 5，1942，Durant Collection，Scharchburg Archives，Kettering Univer-sity.
3.Durant，MY Father，PP.64—65.
4.Ibid，PP.54—55.
5.Bernard A.Weisberger，The Dream Maker(Boston：Little，Brown，1979)，P.51.
6.Axel Madsen.The Deal Maker(New York：Wiley，New York，1999)，P.40.
7.比利·杜兰特保存了许多他母亲的亲笔信件和他自己的回信，其中一些是用杜兰特一多特证券公司的信笺写就，但是他没有保存与妻子克拉拉通信的任何材料，除了两人最后离婚诉讼的文件，这些文件中的一部分跟他个人的信件一起保存在凯特林大学沙奇伯格档案馆的杜兰特档案中。
[第6章]
1.Arthur Pound，The Turning Wheel(New York：Doubleday，Doran＆Company，1934)，PP.79—80.
2.Margery Durant，My Father(New York：Knickerbocker Press，1929)，pp.57—58.
3.Durant，My Father，P.59.
4.William C.Durant，“The Chevrolet，”P.8，manuscript in the Durant Collection，Scharchburg Archives，Kettering University.
5.Alfred P.Sloan Jr.，with Boyden Sparkes，Adventures of a White Collar Man(New York：Doubleday，Doran&Company，1941)，PP.48—49.
6.Sloan，Adventures ofa White Collar Man，PP.49—50.
7.Durant.My Father，PP.57—59.
8.Bernard A.Weisberger，The Dream Maker(Boston：Liule，Brown，1979)，P.115.
9.William C.Durant autobiographical notes，Durant Collection，Scharch—burg Archive，Kettering University.
10.Ibid.
11.Ibid.
12.Alfred P.Sloan，Jr.，with John McDonald，My Years with General Mo—tors(New York：Doubleday，1963)，P.3.
13.Letter from William C.Durant to John Carton，March 14，1906，as quo—ted in George S.May，A Most Unique Machine(Grand Rapids，MI：W.E.Eerdmans，1975)，P.202.