Ford : the men and the machine

by Robert Lacey

Paper Book, 1986

Call number

920 / FOR / 1

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Collection

Your library

Publication

Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, c1986.

Description

Relates the story of Henry Ford, his son Edsel, his grandson Henry II, and describes others who were influential in the automobile company and in the family dynasty.

User reviews

LibraryThing member NellieMc

Interesting book to read now, in view of the near demise of the domestic automobile industry. You can see why the car makers haven't dealt well with change -- insulated and very, very human. Excellent biography of Henry Ford, his son Edsel, and grandson Henry--brought out their strengths well, but

also their failings. Very interesting, and, in the end, not people you'd call a friend.

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LibraryThing member btuckertx

I liked it, just wished I'd read it 20 years ago when the information was still fresh. My fault, not the author's...

I agree with the previous reviewer - these are not the kind of people you'd like to have as friends (although it might be nice to have the kind of money it would take to hang with

them). Pirahnas in a bowl of gold fish...

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LibraryThing member kropferama

Not a review but sometimes I'll try to write a Cento from a book I've finished. Here's one I tried for this book.

Ford

One of capitalisms alters
a vast satanic cathedral
All night the Rogue growls
its fires and flares
casting flickering shadows
its furnaces glowing dull red
around the base of its

brooding bulk

The industrial guts of America
Europe has its palaces
but America celebrates her native genius
with monuments of a rougher sort.

--credit to Robert Lacy, Ford: The Men and Machine

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