Views from the Outside

 Is there any subject that warms the heart of red-blooded Americans more than that of a plucky underdog having his day?  A real David-and-Goliath struggle of the established bigwigs and a cocky upstart taking them all down.  It's the stuff of legends repeated over the dinner table and across bars all over the country. Books have been written about the subject such as Soul of a New Machine by Tracey Kidder, about a plucky minicomputer company called Data General, which won a Pulitzer Prize Moneyball by Michael Lewis which changed the way Baseball operates and most importantly (for Lewis) was turned into a movie Shoe Dog by Phil Knight about daring upstart sports company you may have heard of called Nike. Car by Mary Walton about the 1996 Ford Taurus which was to lead Ford back to the glory days and fight off not only GM and Chrysler but Toyota and Honda. Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand, about a plucky horse with a heart of gold and the team that believed in him. and thousands of