| Description |
xiii, 306 pages ; 22 cm. |
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Lives and legacies series |
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Lives and legacies.
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| Summary |
Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti-Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made millions producing war materials. He urbanized the modern world, and then tried to drag it back into a romanticized rural past he'd helped to destroy. As the American auto industry struggles to reinvent itself, Vincent Curcio's timely biography offers a wealth of new insight into the man who started it all. This new volume in the Lives and Legacies series explores the full impact of Ford's indisputable greatness, the deep flaws that complicate his legacy, and what he means for our own time. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
How it all began -- Walking into the future -- Cooking with gas -- The Ford Motor Company -- The Model T and the coming of mass production -- 6. Peace and war and consolidating power -- Modern times -- Has something come between us? -- A body in motion tends to stay in motion -- Everything old is new again -- Efflorescence and hard endings. |
| Subject |
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947.
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Industrialists -- United States -- Biography.
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Automobile industry and trade -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780195316926 hardback alkaline paper |
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0195316924 hardback alkaline paper |
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