Morrow & Co., 1986) Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White, Comeback: The Fall & Rise of the American Automobile Industry (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995) Paul A. Witteman, Roger's Painful Legacy, Time, November 9, 1992 Alex Taylor III, GM Gets Its Act Together. Finally. How America's No. 1 car company changed its ways and started looking like ... Toyota., Fortune, April 5, 2004; For an analysis of the 1984 reorganization, and past/present turnaround efforts Jon Lowell, David C. Smith GM10; history's biggest car program, Ward's Auto World, March, 1986; For a contemporaneous optimistic view of GM10 Paul Ingrassia, How Detroit Drove Into a Ditch, Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2008 Final Offer (Documentary) – National Film Board of Canada'', 1985 – Featuring Roger Smith in his Union negotians of 1984. External links Obituary in The Times. December 4, 2007. Roger Smith at Find a Grave 1925 births 2007 deaths American manufacturing businesspeople Businesspeople from Columbus, Ohio General Motors former executives Ross School of Business alumni United States Navy sailors 20th-century American businesspeople