Henry Ford / Vincent Curcio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curcio, Vincent.

Series:

Lives and legacies.

Lives and legacies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947.

Ford, Henry.

Automobile industry and trade--United States--History.

Automobile industry and trade.

Industrialists--United States--Biography.

Industrialists.

United States--Biography.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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 al

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; ONE: HOW IT ALL BEGAN; TWO: WALKING INTO THE FUTURE; THREE: COOKING WITH GAS; FOUR: THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY; FIVE: THE MODEL T AND THE COMING OF MASS PRODUCTION; SIX: PEACE AND WAR AND CONSOLIDATING POWER; SEVEN: MODERN TIMES; EIGHT: HAS SOMETHING COME BETWEEN US?; NINE: A BODY IN MOTION TENDS TO STAY IN MOTION; TEN: EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN; ELEVEN: EFFLORESCENCE AND HARD ENDINGS; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-991120-7

1-299-39725-5

0-19-971789-3

OCLC:

835591944