Davis, Lynn

Summary: "The car changed travel forever. Henry Ford started a car-making revolution. Kids can read this book to find out how Ford transformed America with his cars. They will learn how many cars Ford made before the Model T Ford"--Publisher's website.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016

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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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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 BAI

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 BAI

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Summary: Discusses the life and accomplishments of Henry Ford, a man who changed the American way of life in the 1900s by inventing the Model T and founding the Ford Motor Company.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FORD ELN

Mitchell, Don

Summary: A biography of Henry Ford, the industrial visionary who changed the automobile from rich man's toy into affordable necessity.

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FOR

Greenleaf, William

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1961

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 Greenleaf

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, HENRY SNO

Lacey, Robert.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1986

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 LAC

Brinkley, Douglas.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, HENRY BRI

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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Wik, Reynold M.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1972

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 WIK

Kulling, Monica.

Summary: Relates the excitement caused by Henry Ford as he drove the "horseless carriage" he built, particularly when he decided to win a race to get money to build a new car that anyone could afford.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338.7 KUL

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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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD,HENRY MAR

Davis, Wes

Summary: "The epic road trips-and surprising friendship-of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3048 DAV

Hager, Thomas

Summary: During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country's poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's "Detroit of the South" would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.980 HAG

Bryan, Ford R. (Ford Richardson)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 BRY