The Tower of Power provides the reader with a rare glimpse into an American institution, the car business, and is written with such an insider's knowledge, truthfully showing---without any melodrama---all the grief and ugliness as well as the joy and beauty that surrounds so many of these cunning, calculating and captivating characters' lives, that you'll remember them long after you've finished reading the book---especially when you realize that they're all bit players in this tragic/comedy called life and that one of them could have easily been you.