02956nam 2200625Ia 450 991077941460332120230803020342.00-19-991120-71-299-39725-50-19-971789-3(CKB)2550000001017634(EBL)1164139(OCoLC)835591944(SSID)ssj0000856237(PQKBManifestationID)12305870(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856237(PQKBWorkID)10806088(PQKB)11718934(MiAaPQ)EBC1164139(Au-PeEL)EBL1164139(CaPaEBR)ebr10679135(CaONFJC)MIL470975(EXLCZ)99255000000101763420130107d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHenry Ford[electronic resource] /Vincent CurcioNew York Oxford University Press20131 online resource (323 p.)Lives and legacies seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-531692-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; ZMost 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 alLives and legacies.Automobile industry and tradeUnited StatesHistoryIndustrialistsUnited StatesBiographyUnited StatesBiographyAutomobile industry and tradeHistory.Industrialists338.7/6292092BHIS036060BIO003000bisacshCurcio Vincent1504645MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779414603321Henry Ford3733763UNINA