Henry Ford
"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 milli...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2013.
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| Series: | Lives and legacies.
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Table of Contents:
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- Introduction
- 1. How it all began
- 2. Walking into the future
- 3. Cooking with gas
- 4. The Ford Motor Company
- 5. The Model T and the coming of mass production
- 6. Peace and war and consolidating power
- 7. Modern times
- 8. Has something come between us?
- 9. A body in motion tends to stay in motion
- 10. Everything old is new again
- 11. Efflorescence and hard endings.
