Henry Ford's Peace Ship
Henry Ford's Peace Ship

Author: Frank Ernest Hill

Publisher: New Word City

Published: 2017-04-26

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1640190589

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In 1915, carmaker Henry Ford organized and launched an extraordinary mission to drive the warring parties in World War I to the peace table. He failed miserably. Here, in this essay, Ford biographer Frank Ernest Hill and Pulitzer-Prize winner Allen Nevins detail Ford's pacifist adventure.

Young Henry Ford
Young Henry Ford

Author: Sidney Olson

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780814312247

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Young Henry Ford is a visual and textual presentation of the first forty years of Henry Ford. Young Henry Ford is a visual and textual presentation of the first forty years of Henry Ford--an American farm boy who became one of the greatest manufacturers of modern times and profoundly impacted the habits of American life. In Young Henry Ford, Sidney Olson dispels some of the myths attached to this automobile legend, going beyond the Henry Ford of mass production and the five-dollar day, and offers a more intimate understanding of Henry Ford and the time he lived in. Through hundreds of restored photographs, including some of Ford's own taken with his first camera, Young Henry Ford revisits an America now gone--of long days on the farm, travel by horse and buggy, and one-room schoolhouses. Some of the rare illustrations include the first picture of Henry Ford, photos from Edsel's childhood, snapshots of the interior and exterior of the Ford homestead, Clara and Henry's wedding invitation, and photos of the early stages of the first automobile.

The People's Tycoon
The People's Tycoon

Author: Steven Watts

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2009-03-04

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 0307558975

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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.

Driven
Driven

Author: Don Mitchell

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1426301553

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

Today and Tomorrow
Today and Tomorrow

Author: Henry Ford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-22

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1351408046

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Winner of the 2003 Shingo Prize! Henry Ford is the man who doubled wages, cut the price of a car in half, and produced over 2 million units a year. Time has not diminished the progressiveness of his business philosophy, or his profound influence on worldwide industry. The modern printing of Today and Tomorrow features an introduction by James J.

Tell It Like Tupper
Tell It Like Tupper

Author: J. Mark Powell

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1480803243

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A car breaks down on a snowy road in rural Iowa, a passerby offers a ride, and a friendship is formed that will launch one man on the path to political greatness while unwittingly driving the other into the national spotlight and pushing his family to the brink of disintegration. With this chance meeting, fate intertwines the lives of Glenn Tupper, a small engine repairman who lives a quiet life in tiny Creston, Iowa, with Senator Phil Granby, a presidential candidate whose campaign is a spectacular flop. When Granby departs from his prepackaged message and starts using Tuppers practical sayings, his political fortunes make a dramatic turnaround. But Tupper finds that even unsought fame comes at a painfully high price when a sinister force exposes a dark family secret that he did not know. Now it is up to Jarma Jordan, a quirky young blogger, to discover the hidden answers that could save Granbys campaign and rescue Tuppers family from ruin. But will her efforts be too little, too late? In this intriguing tale, the chain of events builds to the eve of New Hampshires presidential primary with a candidacy -and one mans future- hanging in the balance.

The American Axis
The American Axis

Author: Max Wallace

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2004-12-13

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 9780312335311

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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.