Summary: "Beyond the Horizons: The Lockheed Story is the story of those turbulent eighty-two years during which Lockheed achieved fantastic successes and endured occasional failures. Lockheed aircraft set innumerable records and were flown by great pioneering aviators such as Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post, and Howard Hughes. Lockheed engineers achieved fame usually reserved for film stars: Men like the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Automobile Quarterly Publications 1983

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Wik, Reynold M.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1972

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Whyte, Kenneth

Summary: "A provocative, ground-breaking history of the downfall of the American auto industry from the widely praised author of Herbert Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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Lehto, Steve

Summary: "In the wake of World War II, the U.S. automobile industry was fully unprepared to meet the growing demands of the public, for whom they had not made any cars for years. In stepped Preston Tucker, a salesman extraordinaire who announced the building of a revolutionary new car: the Tucker '48, the first car in almost a decade to be built fresh from the ground up. Tucker's car, which would...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2016

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Collier, Peter.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2002

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Hoffman, Bryce G.

Summary: An account of the near-collapse of Ford in 2008 outlines the efforts of CEO Alan Mulally to save the company, describing Ford's subsequent transformation into the world's most profitable automobile business.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2012

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Gregory, Josh.

Contents: From Dearborn to Detroit : How did Henry Ford become interested in cars? -- On the Road : What were the first vehicles Ford ever built? -- A Car For Everyone : How did Ford manufacture so many Model Ts? -- The Big Truth : Many Models : How did Ford's car designs change over time? -- Later Years : How did the Great Depression affect Ford's business? -- True Statistics -- Important Words.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Estleman, Loren D.

Summary: At the beginning of the twentieth century, two things were invented that would spawn the two biggest industries in history. One was the automobile. The other was organized crime.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1999

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Genat, Robert

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Publisher / Publication Date: MBI Pub. 1999

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Baldwin, Neil

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2001

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Latham, Caroline.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989

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Bryan, Ford R. (Ford Richardson)

Summary: Describes people and interests that colored the life of Henry Ford I. Part I encompasses Ford's encounters with famous people such as George Washington Carver, Helen Keller, Mahatma Gandhi, and others. Part 2 details the branches of the Ford family tree. Part 3 addresses Ford's mechanical pursuits including the electric car, speedboat Miss Dearborn, and robot engines. Parts 5 and 6 detail...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ford Books 2002

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Snow, Richard F.

Summary: "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. Every century or so, our republic has been changed by a new technology: 170 years ago it was the railroad; today it's the microprocessor. But in the early twentieth century it was the gasoline-combustion...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013

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Heing, Bridey

Contents: Sourcing cars -- Making cars -- Selling cars -- Global connections.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Knoedelseder, William

Summary: Chronicles the rise of the American auto industry through the life of Harley Earl, an innovator who introduced the art of automobile styling into the auto-making industry, revolutionizing the way cars were made and marketed.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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Thomas, Peggy

Summary: "With a mind for ingenuity, Henry Ford looked to improve life for others. After the Great Depression struck, Ford especially wanted to support ailing farmers. For two years, Ford and his team researched ways to use farmers' crops in his Ford Motor Company. They discovered that the soybean was the perfect answer. Soon, Ford's cars contained many soybean plastic parts, and Ford incorporated...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2019

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Marquis, Samuel S.

Contents: Introduction to new edition / David L. Lewis -- Introduction to Henry Ford: an interpretation -- The Ford halo -- The art of self-advertising -- A dream that came true -- The Ford fortune -- Some elements of success -- Mental traits and characteristics -- "Just kids" -- Behind a Chinese wall -- Henry Ford and the church -- Henry Ford, Dives, Lazarus and others -- The Ford charities -- The Ford...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007

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Davis, Michael W. R.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2001

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Ingrassia, Paul.

Summary: This is the saga of the American automobile industry's rise and demise, a story of hubris, denial, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit's Big Three car companies--once proud symbols of prosperity--through bankruptcy. Pulitzer winner Paul Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit's self-destruction...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010

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Watts, Steven

Summary: Henry Ford, a major architect of modern America, has lived on in the imagination of his fellow citizens as an enduring figure of fascination, an inimitable individual, a controversial personality, and a social visionary from the moment his Model T brought the automobile to the masses and triggered the consumer revolution. Ford first made the automobile affordable, but grew skeptical of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2005

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Banham, Russ.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tehabi Books 2002

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Baime, A. J. (Albert J.)

Summary: Chronicles Detroit's dramatic transition from an automobile manufacturing center to a highly efficient producer of World War II airplanes, citing the essential role of Edsel Ford's rebellion against his father, Henry Ford.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014

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Wrynn, V. Dennis

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Publisher / Publication Date: Motorbooks International 1993

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