Download or read book Henry Ford s Way written by New Word City and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Ford’s vision of a car for Everyman and a living wage for his employees created the middle class and forever changed America. But the deeply flawed genius got lost in his own new world. Among the lessons you can learn from his life: Make yourself stand out. If you find a diamond, don’t throw it away. Don’t neglect your opportunities no matter how remote. Understand your weaknesses. When you do recognize your mistakes, don’t punish the world for them. Henry Ford was far from the only inventor chasing the horseless carriage at the turn of the century, and it took him three decades after his encounter with the road roller in 1876 to roll out the Model T in 1908. Even then, he had to outmaneuver his financial backers to pursue his vision of building a car for everyone. Sooner or later, of course, someone else might well have done it. But the world is what it is because of Ford’s patient, dogged determination. If you have a big idea, don’t give up on it. New Word City, publishers of digital originals, contributes 10 percent of its profits to literacy causes.
Download or read book Henry Ford written by Vincent Curcio and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact, lively biography of Henry Ford, the brilliant businessman and icon of American modernity whose towering ego and anti-Semitism complicate his legacy.
Download or read book Drive written by Lawrence Goldstone and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statement of responsibility from jacket.
Download or read book The People s Tycoon written by Steven Watts and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car affordable to the masses, all the while lamenting the moral toll exacted by consumerism. He believed in giving his workers a living wage, though he was entirely opposed to union labor. He had a warm and loving relationship with his wife, but sired a son with another woman. A rabid anti-Semite, he nonetheless embraced African American workers in the era of Jim Crow. Uncovering the man behind the myth, situating his achievements and their attendant controversies firmly within the context of early twentieth-century America, Watts has given us a comprehensive, illuminating, and fascinating biography of one of America’s first mass-culture celebrities.
Download or read book Henry Ford written by Gerry Boehme and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and raised on a family farm, Henry Ford abandoned his traditional way of life to become an American legend and industry icon. Ford's life mirrored the broad transition taking place in the United States just after the Civil War as it converted from an agrarian to an industrial society during the American phase of the Industrial Revolution. Henry Ford was also a man of contradictions. While he gained fame for producing affordable cars such as the Model T, raising wages, and hiring minorities and immigrants, he also was accused of stubbornness, bigotry, and suppressing workers' rights. This book peels back the layers of Henry Ford's past to examine the motivations, accomplishments, and legacy of the man who changed the way Americans worked and how they lived.
Download or read book Henry Ford written by Samuel S. Marquis and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of the rare and controversial biography of Henry Ford, first published in 1923, written by Ford's close associate.
Download or read book Time For Kids Henry Ford written by Editors Of Time For Kids and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the life and accomplishments of Henry Ford, a man who changed the American way of life in the 1900s by inventing the Model T and founding the Ford Motor Company.
Download or read book Henry Ford written by Bernard A. Weisberger and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ruggedly independent, often bullheaded genius, Henry Ford was scarred by battles with bankers, labor unions, newspapers, and courts. He had been denounced as a tyrant and a crank and hailed as a prophet. Through it all, he went his own stubborn way, telling his opponents and the entire nation exactly what he thought of them and still selling millions of cars. Here, in this essay by historian Bernard A. Weisberger, is Ford's remarkable story.
Download or read book Henry Ford and the Model T written by Michael O'Hearn and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In graphic novel format, tells the story of Henry Ford and his popular Model T automobile"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Hitler s American Friends written by Bradley W. Hart and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II. Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided. Bradley W. Hart's Hitler's American Friends exposes the homegrown antagonists who sought to protect and promote Hitler, leave Europeans (and especially European Jews) to fend for themselves, and elevate the Nazi regime. Some of these friends were Americans of German heritage who joined the Bund, whose leadership dreamed of installing a stateside Führer. Some were as bizarre and hair-raising as the Silver Shirt Legion, run by an eccentric who claimed that Hitler fulfilled a religious prophesy. Some were Midwestern Catholics like Father Charles Coughlin, an early right-wing radio star who broadcast anti-Semitic tirades. They were even members of Congress who used their franking privilege—sending mail at cost to American taxpayers—to distribute German propaganda. And celebrity pilot Charles Lindbergh ended up speaking for them all at the America First Committee. We try to tell ourselves it couldn't happen here, but Americans are not immune to the lure of fascism. Hitler's American Friends is a powerful look at how the forces of evil manipulate ordinary people, how we stepped back from the ledge, and the disturbing ease with which we could return to it.
Download or read book The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford written by Beth Tompkins Bates and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
Download or read book The Amazing Story of Henry Ford written by James Martin Miller and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazing Story of Henry Ford by James Martin Miller describes Henry Ford's Birth and Early Boyhood Days-His Struggles as a Farmer, Mechanic and Engineer-The Invention and Development of the Ford Motor Car and Fordson Tractor and Includes a History of the Ford Motor Company and Its Miraculous Growth-His Defiance of Wall Street-His Famous Minimum Wage Scale for Both Men and Women and Its Results-The Peace Ship-His Senatorial Campaign-The Tribune Libel Suit -The Muscle Shoals Project-His Studies in the Jewish Question, Etc., Etc Illustrated from Original Photographs Picturing the Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Henry Ford. Also included: "The 'New Era' Philosophy" by Henry Ford and "The Ford Manual" as published by the Ford Motor Company. * * * ...a few excerpts from the book: "America needs the American Shop. It needs it not only to meet the vast economic problems which confront us in the production of an adequate quantity of goods; but also to solve the problems which have grown out of past injustices on the part of both leadership and labor. "It is pretty well conceded, even by the most slow-minded employer, that the question of production cannot be settled until the question of the producer is settled. The principal and controlling factor in all our difficulties is the human element. Indeed, all our difficulties, of whatever nature, are human difficulties; they are the signs of humanity in trouble.... "The American Way is constructive. It grows out of ideas, not out of violence. It works by education, not by disintegration. Nothing permanent is accomplished by forces pulling apart, because in this country everything that is accomplished comes by various opinions pulling together toward a desired endThere is no difference of opinion in this country as to what we desire our common life to be. All agree on the desired object. The difference comes in the methods of attaining it. But even this difference is educational. Radical and conservative interest upon each other, modify each other, until presently they come together for united achievement. That is the American Way, and the results of it stand." -Henry Ford
Download or read book My Life and Work written by Henry Ford and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Life and Work" by Henry Ford. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book My Life and Work written by Henry Ford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Life and Work" is the autobiography of Henry Ford, an industrialist and the founder of Ford Motor Company.. It is full of great ideas about business and life. In the book, Ford tells about his childhood and growing up, how he grew up on his family farm but always wanted to implement smarter ideas to make his work easier. He tells about his business ideas including ways he cut down weight and save money while creating an overall better product. Mr. Ford shares his first meeting with clockworks and automobiles and a little of his story before he founded Ford Motor Company and how he worked to make it start and grow. As the Ford Motor Company become well-established and well-known, Ford presents the reader his views on business, industry and mass production, wages and money, social concerns and charity and how he applied the principles of the Ford Motor Company plants to a school, a hospital and the railroad. Mr. Ford is a character with very stringent and seemingly unbending views and beliefs on life and what is right and what is wrong. He speaks with great authority. Henry Ford was a visionary for his time - he kept a successful business, happy employees and happy consumers. Not only that, but he successfully applied his principles to other areas and businesses making them efficient and self-sufficient as well. Chances are, you may find your success ideas hidden in these precious pages! Some Nuggets from the Book: "There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail" "The natural thing to do is to work-to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort." "I cannot say that it was hard work. No work with interest is ever hard. I always am certain of results. They always come if you work hard enough. But it was a very great thing to have my wife even more confident than I was. She has always been that way." "That is the way with wise people-they are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations. That is why I never employ an expert in full bloom. If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means I would endow the opposition with experts. They would have so much good advice that I could be sure they would do little work." Get Your Copy!
Download or read book Friends Families Forays written by Ford Richardson Bryan and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 55 chapters of Friends, Families & Forays are bursting with details about the people and the pursuits that colored the life of Henry Ford. Here the reader will meet prominent and diverse figures such as Thomas Edison, John Borroughs, George Washington Carver, Helen Keller, and Mahatma Gandhi—all of whose lives intersected that of Henry Ford at some interesting point in his life. Also brought to life in these pages are the branches of Ford's family tree, from his Irish ancestors to the descendants who carry his legacy today. Although it was the automobile that made him an industrial icon, Henry Ford could boast of exploits in many other arenas as well: railroads, speedboats, robots, flour mills, rubber plantations, and humanitarian efforts around the world and in his own backyard. Ford's hard work and passionate interests brought him great wealth , and this book provides a peek at the luxuries he and his wife, Clara, enjoyed, from a yacht and a private rail car, to gracious residences in Michigan, Florida, and Georgia.
Download or read book The Story of Henry Ford written by Jenna Grodzicki and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the life of Henry Ford—a story about putting the world on wheels for kids ages 6 to 9 Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company and the inventor of the Model T, the car that changed the way many Americans lived. Before he became a pioneer in the auto industry, Henry was a young boy who loved to take things apart and figure out how they worked. When he grew up, he invented creative new ways to assemble cars and made them more affordable for the first time. This Henry Ford biography for kids explores how he went from being a curious child to a successful businessman and inventor. Independent reading—This Henry Ford biography is broken down into short chapters and simple language so kids 6 to 9 can read and learn on their own. Critical thinking—Kids will learn the Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How of Henry's life, find definitions of new words, discussion questions, and more. A lasting legacy—Find out how Henry Ford made a mark on the world that we still see today. How will Henry Ford's hard work and innovative spirit inspire you? Discover activists, artists, athletes, and more from across history with the rest of the Story Of series, including famous figures like: Leonardo da Vinci, the Wright Brothers, Katherine Johnson, Neil Armstrong, and Marie Curie.
Download or read book The International Jew written by Henry Ford and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
