Made cars affordable for middle-class Americans through the production system called Fordism; ran Ford Motor Company as CEO from 1906 to 1945 and patented the Model T transmission in 1911.
1 book of their own · 9 biographies about them
An industrial philosophy of mass production, written at the height of the Model T.
My Life and Work | An industrial philosophy of mass production, written at the height of the Model T. | 1922 | T2 | – |
A large and contested literature that has to hold the industrial achievement and the antisemitism together.
Henry Ford as a shaper of American culture as much as of its industry.
Henry Ford's failed attempt to build a small American town in the Amazon.
Three generations of Fords, Henry, Edsel and Henry II, and their company.
Four generations of the family and the succession that nearly sank the company.
The Ford Motor Company from 1903 to the end of the 20th century.
Recommended by: Paul Graham
How Henry Ford published The International Jew, a book the Nazis spread.
Henry Ford and his son Edsel, and how the father undermined his own successor.
Tight narrative of the Model T years; the best short account.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
An industrial philosophy of mass production, written at the height of the Model T.
| Henry Ford Is Dead at 83 in Dearborn | The New York Times | 1947 |