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How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a vintage, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this participating and superbly researched biography.
The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer trend by producing a car affordable to the public, even while lamenting the moral toll exacted by consumerism. He assumed in supplying his workers a living wage, though he was totally against union labor. He previously a warm and loving relationship with his wife, but sired a son with another woman. A rabid anti-Semite, he nonetheless embraced DARK-COLORED personnel in the period of Jim Crow.
Uncovering the man behind the myth, situating his achievements and their attendant controversies tightly within the framework of early on twentieth-century America, W has given us a thorough, illuminating, and amazing biography of 1 of America’s first mass-culture celebrities.
