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Title: Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003 by Douglas Brinkley ISBN: 0-670-03181-X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 28 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.07 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Packed with Knowledge!
Comment: It would be difficult to conceive of a more detailed corporate history. Author Douglas Brinkley offers an interesting, lucid narrative of Henry Ford's early experiments with the automobile, and his first, unsuccessful companies. He promises and delivers a "warts and all" picture of Ford's history. Brinkley is at his strongest discussing Ford's origins. But the book is also sprawling, diffuse and unfocused, with a somewhat confusing tendency to jump back and forth along the twentieth century timeline. It is more than a biography of Henry Ford, but less than a thorough history of the Ford Motor Company. The author nods in the direction of the technological, managerial and financial forces that have shaped Ford since the 1950s, though he presents Ford's (both man and company) earlier history in vivid detail. The impact of what Henry Ford did and how he did it still shapes industry in the United States. We recommend Brinkley's book for its revealing picture of one of the twentieth century's most influential industrialists.
Rating: 3
Summary: Wheels for the World
Comment: Wheels for the World by Douglas Brinkley is a lengthy, but well written book that details the Ford Motor Company's epic history and many accomplishments. Brinkley offers the reader plenty of information on Henry Ford, the pioneer of mass produced auto manufacturing. He details everything from Ford's instabilities and contradicting behavior to his impeccable business savvy. A major downfall for Wheels for the World is Brinkley's inability to make clean transitions from one idea to the next. The reader gets attached to one idea, and the next thing you know Brinkley has begun an entirely new concept. But, in the end I believe the author did a great job of capturing the struggles and successes of the Ford Motor Company, while also taking us through an interesting journey into the life of an extremely intelligent man in our nation's history. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the nation and the auto-making industry.
Rating: 1
Summary: A Disappointment
Comment: I found no mention of Harry Ferguson, the Ford-Ferguson tractor(perhaps the most significant agricultural tractor of the Twentieth Century), or subsequent tractor work by Ford. There was no mention of Dearborn Motors, nor its significance to the Company.
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Title: The Ford Century: Ford Motor Company and the Innovations That Shaped the World by Russ Banham, Paul Newman ISBN: 1579652018 Publisher: Artisan Sales Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The End of Detroit : How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market by MICHELINE MAYNARD ISBN: 0385507690 Publisher: Currency Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM by Kevin Maney ISBN: 0471414638 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 04 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent ISBN: 0670031690 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire by Richard Bak ISBN: 0471234877 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 03 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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