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The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
by Steven Watts
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Vintage (2006-10-10)
ISBN: 0375707255
EAN: 9780375707254
Binding/Media: Paperback - 656 pages
Edition: 1st Vintage Bks Ed., Oct. 2006
Release Date: 2006-10-10
SKU: L11-25090224012
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: This Ex-Library, First Vintage Books Edition, First Printing, is in good condition. There's the usual library stamps/sticker/pencil writings on the first & second page. Apart from that there's No visible markings, highlights, underlining, tears to text. Tight spine. Side foredge has three tiny pen marks. No Dust Jacket. Top, Front Soft Cover and bottom spine has library sticker. Front Cover also has a crease from top to bottom with a fair amount of rubbing around the edges. Apart from cover which has moderate/lots of shelf/edge wear, one can get a lot of usage from same at an affordable price. (L11-25)
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Product Description
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.
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