Ford: We Never Called Him Henry

Ford: We Never Called Him Henry
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Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1004801613
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Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Ford: We Never Called Him Henry by : Harry Herbert Bennett

Henry's Attic

Henry's Attic
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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Total Pages : 442
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ISBN-10 : 0814326420
ISBN-13 : 9780814326428
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Henry's Attic by : Ford Richardson Bryan

Henry's Attic provides fascinating documentation of some of the one million artifacts in the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. The items represent both Henry Ford's passion for collecting Americana and the astonishing array of gifts-some of great historic value and others of a distinctly homegrown variety-that account for almost half of the museum's collections. It was the quantity of these gifts and the unusual and even unique nature of many of them that provided the inspiration for this book. Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, which Ford established in Dearborn, Michigan in the late 1920s, was intended to recreate the slow-paced, rural character of America before the advent of the automobile. The purchases he made and the gifts he was given reflect his desire to document and preserve the lifeways of common people and to emphasize middle-class rural history, as represented by the tools of agriculture, industry, and transportation.

Clara

Clara
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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 0814330657
ISBN-13 : 9780814330654
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Clara by : Ford R. Bryan

"Pick a good model and stay with it," Henry Ford once said. No, he was not talking about cars; he was talking about marriage. Was Clara Bryant Ford a "good model"? Her husband of fifty-nine years seems to have thought so. He called her "The Believer," and indeed Clara's unwavering support of Henry's pursuits and her patient tolerance of the quirks and obsessions that accompanied her husband's genius made it possible for him to change the world. In telling the story of Clara Ford, author Ford Bryan also charts the course of the growing automobile industry and the life of the enigmatic man at its helm. But the book's heart is Clara herself--daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother; cook, gardener, and dancer; modest philanthropist and quiet role model. Clara is newly revealed in accounts and documents gleaned from personal papers, oral histories, and archival material never made public until now. These include receipts and recipes, diaries and genealogies, and 175 photographs.

Edsel

Edsel
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Publisher : SAE International
Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : 9780768009200
ISBN-13 : 0768009200
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Edsel by : Henry L Dominguez

Carefully crafted from thousands of Ford archives, written interviews, and first-hand accounts told by people who knew the man, Edsel: The Story of Henry Ford's Forgotten Son, brings into focus the remarkable life of Edsel Ford. The book chronicle's Edsel's life from his early days of growing up in and around his father's company, through the controversy of his World War I draft notice and eventual exemption, the design change from the Model T to the Model A, and the creation of the Ford Foundation. 27 chapters in all help to shed light on the life of a man who preferred to spend most of his life out of the limelight.

Driven

Driven
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : 9781426301551
ISBN-13 : 1426301553
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Driven by : Don Mitchell

A biography of Henry Ford, the industrial visionary who changed the automobile from rich man's toy into affordable necessity.

The People's Tycoon

The People's Tycoon
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 656
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ISBN-10 : 9780307558978
ISBN-13 : 0307558975
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The People's Tycoon by : Steven Watts

How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car affordable to the masses, all the while lamenting the moral toll exacted by consumerism. He believed in giving his workers a living wage, though he was entirely opposed to union labor. He had a warm and loving relationship with his wife, but sired a son with another woman. A rabid anti-Semite, he nonetheless embraced African American workers in the era of Jim Crow. Uncovering the man behind the myth, situating his achievements and their attendant controversies firmly within the context of early twentieth-century America, Watts has given us a comprehensive, illuminating, and fascinating biography of one of America’s first mass-culture celebrities.

Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech

Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 425
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ISBN-10 : 9780804783736
ISBN-13 : 080478373X
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech by : Victoria Saker Woeste

Henry Ford is remembered in American lore as the ultimate entrepreneur—the man who invented assembly-line manufacturing and made automobiles affordable. Largely forgotten is his side career as a publisher of antisemitic propaganda. This is the story of Ford's ownership of the Dearborn Independent, his involvement in the defamatory articles it ran, and the two Jewish lawyers, Aaron Sapiro and Louis Marshall, who each tried to stop Ford's war. In 1927, the case of Sapiro v. Ford transfixed the nation. In order to end the embarrassing litigation, Ford apologized for the one thing he would never have lost on in court: the offense of hate speech. Using never-before-discovered evidence from archives and private family collections, this study reveals the depth of Ford's involvement in every aspect of this case and explains why Jewish civil rights lawyers and religious leaders were deeply divided over how to handle Ford.

I Invented the Modern Age

I Invented the Modern Age
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9781451645576
ISBN-13 : 1451645570
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis I Invented the Modern Age by : Richard Snow

An account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T, the machine that defined twentieth-century America.

Wheels for the World

Wheels for the World
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Total Pages : 858
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ISBN-10 : 1437965504
ISBN-13 : 9781437965506
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Wheels for the World by : Douglas Brinkley

The saga of how Henry Ford and Ford Motor Co. changed our world. Reveals the details of Ford¿s achievements, from the success of the Tin Lizzie to the Model A and V-8, through the Thunderbird, Mustang, and Taurus. Innovators include: Thomas Edison, Alfred Sloan, the Wright Bros., Diego Rivera, and Charles Lindbergh. Discusses 3 factories: Highland Park, River Rouge, and Willow Run, where B-24 airplanes were mass-produced during WW2. Tells of Ford¿s expansion throughout the world, as well as the acquisitions of Volvo, Land Rover, Jaguar, and Mazda. Explores Ford¿s darker aspects, incl. its founder¿s anti-Semitism and wartime pacifism. Introduces us to: James Couzens, Lee Iocacco and William Clay Ford Jr. Photos.

The American Axis

The American Axis
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 498
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ISBN-10 : 0312335318
ISBN-13 : 9780312335311
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Axis by : Max Wallace

Examines how Charles Lindbergh's support for Nazi militarism and U.S. isolationism and Henry Ford's business dealings with Germany tarnished their idealized images. Drawing on original lsources, Wallace brings out some pertinent connections between the two men's anti-Semitism and their ties with the rising Nazi regime. Their influence culminated in an abuse of power that helped strengthen Hitler's regime and undermined the Allied war effort.