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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375407359
ISBN-13
9780375407352
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30754192
Product Key Features
Book Title
People's Tycoon : Henry Ford and the American Century
Number of Pages
640 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Industries / Automobile Industry, Business
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
35 oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-048594
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"The implicit claim of Watts's admirable book is almost inarguablethat it's impossible to understand 20th-century America without knowing the story of Henry Ford." The New York Times "Ford has had many biographers. . . . None, however, comes close to Steven Watts. . . . He brilliantly reveals the nature of Ford's genius." Chicago Tribune "Steven Watts attempts the most integrated understanding to date of Ford's enormous influence and varied appeal. . . . The fascinating result may change the way Henry Ford is remembered." San Francisco Chronicle
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
338.7/6292/092
Table Of Content
PROLOGUE: The Legend of Henry Ford PART ONE: The Road to Fame One-Farm Boy Two-Machinist Three-Inventor Four-Businessman Five-Celebrity Six-Entrepreneur PART TWO: The Miracle Maker Seven-Consumer Eight-Producer Nine-Folk Hero Ten-Reformer Eleven-Victorian Twelve-Politician PART THREE: The Flivver King Thirteen-Legend Fourteen-Visionary Fifteen-Moralist Sixteen-Positive Thinker Seventeen-Emperor Eighteen-Father Nineteen-Bigot PART FOUR: The Long Twilight Twenty-Antiquarian Twenty-one-Individualist Twenty-two-Despot Twenty-three-Dabbler Twenty-four-Educator Twenty-five-Figurehead EPILOGUE: The Sage of Dearborn Acknowledgments Notes Index
Synopsis
Henry Ford, a major architect of modern America, has lived on in the imagination of his fellow citizens as an enduring figure of fascination, an inimitable individual, a controversial personality, and a social visionary from the moment his Model T brought the automobile to the masses and triggered the consumer revolution. But never before has his outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as by Steven Watts in this major new biography. Watts, the author of the much acclaimed The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life, has produced a superbly researched study of a man who was a bundle of contradictions. Ford was the entrepreneur who first made the automobile affordable but who grew skeptical of consumerism's corrosive impact on moral values, an employer who insisted on a living wage for his workers but stridently opposed unions, who established the assembly line but worried about its effect on the work ethic, who welcomed African Americans to his company in the age of Jim Crow but was a rabid anti-Semite. He was the private man who had a warm, loving marriage while siring a son with a mistress; a father who drove his heir, Edsel, so relentlessly that it contributed to his early death; a folksy social philosopher and at one time, perhaps, the most popular figure in America, who treated his workers so harshly that they turned against him; creator of the largest, most sophisticated factory in the world who preferred spending time in his elaborate re-creation of a nineteenth-century villa≥ and the greatest businessman of his age who haplessly lost control of his own company in his declining years. Watts poignantly shows us how a Michigan farm boy from modest circumstances emerged as one of America's richest men and one of its first mass-culture celebrities, one who became a folk hero to millions of ordinary citizens because of his support of high wages and material abundance for everyday workers and yet also excited the admiration of figures as diverse as Vladimir Lenin and Adolf Hitler, John D. Rockefeller and Woodrow Wilson. Disclosing the man behind the myth and situating his achievements and controversies firmly within the context of early twentieth-century America, Watts has given us a comprehensive, illuminating biography of an American icon.
LC Classification Number
HD9710.U52F6684 2005
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