"Driven: A Photobiography of Henry Ford" is a riveting profile of the man whose invention revolutionized American life: the industrial visionary who changed the automobile from rich man's toy into affordable necessity. Don Mitchell weaves archival images from the Benson Ford Research Center with quo[...]
From the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who "writes with verve and a keen eye" ("The New York Times Book Review"), comes a fresh and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T--the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America.
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Every century or so, our republic has been remade by a new technology: 170 years ago the railroad changed Americans' conception of space and time; in our era, the microprocessor revolutionized how humans communicate. But in the early twentieth century the agent of creative destruction was the gasoli[...]
Praise from Industry Week, January 2003 "...In Henry Ford's Lean Vision...Levinson shows how the father of American mass production toiled to eliminate waste, instituted just-in-time delivery of inventory, and applied many other tools now identified with lean..."Japanese manufacturers have made conc[...]
This provocative history of the world's most famous anti-Semite--a Detroit Free Press and New York Post bestseller--examines the origins, methods, and consequences of hatred. . How and why did this quintessential American folk-hero and pioneering industrialist become one of the most obsessive anti-S[...]
From an acclaimed popular historian comes a fresh, meticulous, and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T -- the machine that defined the dawning age in America.[...]