Henry Ford [[electronic resource] /] / Vincent Curcio

• Autore: Curcio Vincent
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.7/6292092; B
• Soggetto topico: Automobile industry and trade - United States - History; Industrialists - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Biography
• Classificazione: HIS036060BIO003000
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Henry Ford
• ISBN: 0-19-991120-7; 1-299-39725-5; 0-19-971789-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779414603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Lives and legacies.