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The People's Tycoon

Author : Steven Watts
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307558975
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The People's Tycoon written by Steven Watts and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

"History is Bunk"

Author : Jessie Swigger
Publisher : Public History in Historical P
ISBN 13 : 9781625340788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book "History is Bunk" written by Jessie Swigger and published by Public History in Historical P. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. In 1916 Henry Ford proclaimed that "history is more or less bunk"-at least its focus on politicians and military heroes was bunk. Thirteen years later, he sought to correct this error by opening the Greenfield Village museum, which celebrated the history of farmers and inventors. The village eventually included a replica of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory, the Wright brothers' cycle shop and home from Dayton, Ohio, and Ford's own Michigan birthplace. Artisan shops, a Cotswold cottage from England, and two brick slave cabins reflected Ford's idiosyncratic worldview.

Travel to Collections

Author : National Endowment for the Humanities. Division of Fellowships and Seminars
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Travel to Collections written by National Endowment for the Humanities. Division of Fellowships and Seminars and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Henry's Attic

Author : Ford Richardson Bryan
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814326428
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Henry's Attic written by Ford Richardson Bryan and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

I Invented the Modern Age

Author : Richard Snow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451645570
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book I Invented the Modern Age written by Richard Snow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T, the machine that defined twentieth-century America.

Telling America's Story

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681842141
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Telling America's Story written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond the Model T

Author : Ford Richardson Bryan
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814326824
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Model T written by Ford Richardson Bryan and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New to this edition are chronicles of factory and general hospitals, nursing schools and services, health clinics, and a research institute established by Henry Ford, and the more than a dozen commissaries Ford operated, selling a wide assortment of items to Ford employees and their families from pillow cases to children's shoes.

Henry's Lieutenants

Author : Ford Richardson Bryan
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814332139
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Henry's Lieutenants written by Ford Richardson Bryan and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Henry Ford gloried in the limelight of highly publicized achievement, he privately admitted, "I don't do so much, I just go around lighting fires under other people." Henry's Lieutenants features biographies of thirty-five "other people" who served Henry Ford in a variety of capacities, and nearly all of whom contributed to his fame. These biographical sketches and career highlights reflect the people of high caliber employed by Henry Ford to accomplish his goals: Harry Bennett, Albert Kahn, Ernest Kanzler, William S. Knudsen, and Charles E. Sorenson, among others. Most were employed by the Ford Motor Company, although a few of them were Ford's personal employees satisfying concurrent needs of a more private nature, including his farming, educational, and sociological ventures. Ford Bryan obtained a considerable amount of the material in this book from the oral reminiscences of the subjects themselves.

The Public Image of Henry Ford

Author : David Lanier Lewis
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814318928
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book The Public Image of Henry Ford written by David Lanier Lewis and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skillful journalism and meticulous scholarship are combined in the full-bodied portrait of that enigmatic folk hero, Henry Ford, and of the company he built from scratch. Writing with verve and objectivity, David Lewis focuses on the fame, popularity, and influence of America's most unconventional businessman and traces the history of public relations and advertising within Ford Motor Company and the automobile industry.

Genius LEGO Inventions with Bricks You Already Have

Author : Sarah Dees
Publisher : Page Street Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624146813
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Genius LEGO Inventions with Bricks You Already Have written by Sarah Dees and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling All Tinkerers, Experimenters & Inventors! Unleash Your Creative Powers with Exciting LEGO® Innovations Use science and engineering to transform your bin of LEGO® bricks into amazing, movable toys, machines and gadgets. Bestselling author Sarah Dees is back with an all-new collection of projects featuring ingenious designs and simple scientific principles that real engineers use every day. Make yourself a robot pal whose legs move as he rolls along, or a drummer who really plays the drums. Build a wind-up car complete with a flywheel that’ll send your minifigures zooming. Or challenge your friends to a game of pinball on a LEGO® pinball machine you built from scratch. Each project is cooler than the next! It’s easy and fun to build each of these awesome contraptions and games by following the clear step-by-step instructions and photographs. Think you have a different way to build something? Exercise your inventing muscles and tinker away! You’re in charge of your designs, so experiment and tweak to make your inventions personal to you. No matter what you end up creating, you’ll learn exciting new things about science, impress your family and have a blast along the way. Collect the whole series with Sarah Dees' other bestselling LEGO books: - The Big Book of LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have - Awesome LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have - Epic LEGO Adventures with Bricks You Already Have - Incredible LEGO Creations From Space with Bricks You Already Have

Fordlandia

Author : Greg Grandin
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429938013
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Fordlandia written by Greg Grandin and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to export America itself, along with its golf courses, ice-cream shops, bandstands, indoor plumbing, and Model Ts rolling down broad streets. Fordlandia, as the settlement was called, quickly became the site of an epic clash. On one side was the car magnate, lean, austere, the man who reduced industrial production to its simplest motions; on the other, the Amazon, lush, extravagant, the most complex ecological system on the planet. Ford's early success in imposing time clocks and square dances on the jungle soon collapsed, as indigenous workers, rejecting his midwestern Puritanism, turned the place into a ribald tropical boomtown. Fordlandia's eventual demise as a rubber plantation foreshadowed the practices that today are laying waste to the rain forest. More than a parable of one man's arrogant attempt to force his will on the natural world, Fordlandia depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch. As Greg Grandin shows in this gripping and mordantly observed history, Ford's great delusion was not that the Amazon could be tamed but that the forces of capitalism, once released, might yet be contained. Fordlandia is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

Michigan Haunts: Public Places, Eerie Spaces

Author : Jon Milan and Gail Offen, Foreword by
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467104248
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Michigan Haunts: Public Places, Eerie Spaces written by Jon Milan and Gail Offen, Foreword by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michigan has two beautiful peninsulas that are connected by stories, legends, and mysteries. This book is the perfect glove compartment companion for exploring those paranormal parts of the Mitten State, as most of these hotels, restaurants, theaters, lighthouses, and other places are open to the public. This road trip to "the other side," filled with hauntings, ghost towns, and bizarre tales of murder and mayhem, draws from more than 300 years of Michigan history--from the notoriously haunted remote lighthouses like Seul Choix in the Upper Peninsula to Eloise, one of the most famous psychiatric asylums in America, to the legend of Lover's Leap on Mackinac Island. What Purple Gang member still hangs out in Clare? What spirits lurk at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village? Here is a guide to all that and more, including Houdini's Detroit connections, the poisonings at Cass Corridor's Alhambra, and paranormal activity at Detroit's historic Fort Wayne. Puzzles are still waiting for a solution; Ripley's Believe It or Not once offered $100,000 to anyone who could solve the strange phenomenon of the Paulding Lights near Watersmeet.

Cut and Assemble Historic Buildings at Greenfield Village

Author : A. G. Smith
Publisher : Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780486256351
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Cut and Assemble Historic Buildings at Greenfield Village written by A. G. Smith and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 1988-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy-to-assemble models in H-O scale from famed museum village in Dearborn, Michigan. Complete instructions, captions, diagrams.

The Fords of Dearborn

Author : Ford Richardson Bryan
Publisher : Ford Bryan Fund
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Fords of Dearborn written by Ford Richardson Bryan and published by Ford Bryan Fund. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ford R. Bryan wrote most of this collection of short stores nearly twenty years ago. They were originally published in the first edition of the Fords of Dearborn. The text is focused on the years 1820 to 1950 - from a time before the first of these Fords reached America, until after the death of Henry Ford the industrialist who was by far their most noteworthy member." "This second edition, in a new design in a larger format than the previous edition, includes an index that will be appreciated by both readers and genealogists. In addition, over 125 illustrations in the book provide a photo-history of several family branches as well as some examples of "Auto Henry's" personal interests - beyond his automotive world."--BOOK JACKET.

Henry Ford, Mass Production, Modernism, and Design

Author : Ray Batchelor
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719041747
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Henry Ford, Mass Production, Modernism, and Design written by Ray Batchelor and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Ford is often thought of as being the ultimate American folk hero who developed one of the most important changes to 20th-century American society - mass production. With his successive teams of engineers, Ford developed technologies which placed the motor car at the disposal of millions of people, freeing them from previous notions of distance and space, and re-shaping the modern urban environment worldwide.

Drawing Conclusions on Henry Ford

Author : Rudolph Alvarado
Publisher : University of Michigan Regional
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Drawing Conclusions on Henry Ford written by Rudolph Alvarado and published by University of Michigan Regional. This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses historical cartoons to shape a new view of Henry Ford

This Could be Our Future

Author : Yancey Strickler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0525560823
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book This Could be Our Future written by Yancey Strickler and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the cofounder of Kickstarter comes a vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life worth living. Hopeful but firmly grounded, full of concrete solutions and bursting with creativity, this work brilliantly dissects the world we live in and shows us a road map to the world we are capable of making.