Publication
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
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Large Print Biography G
Physical description
537 p.; 23 cm
Status
Available
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Description
"A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"--
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LibraryThing member byebyelibrary
This book is a fascinating portrait of two of the most famous Americans in 1920s. There is shades of Lear in the story of the aging Ford and aged Edison, two men living off the fame of their youthful achievements while refusing to acknowledge their own limitations.
LibraryThing member msf59
In 1914, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison took a road trip to the Everglades. They were joined by the naturist and writer John Burroughs and later on Harvey Firestone. Coining themselves, The Vagabonds, they decided to continue these annual road trips for the next decade. Guinn has done his homework
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and he supplies plenty of historical and biographical details, along the way. A fascinating slice of history, I knew nothing about. Show Less
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ISBN
9781432872144