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Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motor Company, 1903; originator of the moving assembly line and the five-dollar day.
8 biographies about them
Biographies about them 8
A large and contested literature that has to hold the industrial achievement and the antisemitism together.
Steven Watts · 2005 · The best single-volume life.
Greg Grandin · 2009 · The Amazon rubber town; Ford's ideology tested to destruction abroad.
Robert Lacey · 1986 · Company and dynasty through to the 1980s.
Peter Collier, David Horowitz · 1987 · Four generations of the family and the succession that nearly sank the company.
Douglas Brinkley · 2003 · Centennial company history with archival access.
Neil Baldwin · 2001 · Open Library merges this record with Albert Lee's 1980 book of the same title.
Richard Bak · 2003 · Father and son; how Ford destroyed his own successor.
Richard Snow · 2013 · Tight narrative of the Model T years; the best short account.