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Born on a small farm in rural Michigan, Henry Ford’s humble beginnings were no match for his ambition. Ford quickly created a manufacturing dynasty, bringing affordable cars to the masses and forever changing America and the American workplace. Who Was Henry Ford? details his meteoric rise, and explains how the genius behind the assembly line and the Model T shaped modern American industry.
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"A Washington Post reporter's intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors' assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin—Paul Ryan's hometown—and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class."--Amazon.com
"This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills--but it's not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock of vanished jobs,...
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2014.
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English
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Tells the incredible story of how Detroit answered the call to arms during WWII, centering on Henry Ford and his tortured son Edsel, who, when asked if they could deliver 50,000 airplanes, made an outrageous claim: Ford Motor Company would erect a plant that could yield a "bomber an hour."
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Money, power, politics, drugs, scandal, and fast cars: the incredible story of John DeLorean is the stuff of a Hollywood screenwriter's dreams. But who was the real John DeLorean? To some, he was a renegade visionary who revolutionized the automobile industry. To others, he was the ultimate con man. Interweaving archival footage with dramatic vignettes, loot at a man who gambled everything in pursuit of the American Dream.
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[2009]
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on the true story of Robert Kearns. The Kearns' were a typical 1960s Detroit family. Bob is a college professor and part-time inventor. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns' think they have struck gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants, who originally embraced Bob's creation, unceremoniously shuns him. Ignored, threatened and then buried in years of litigation, Bob...
11) Henry Ford
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24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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Introductory biographies on people who invented things we use everyday. Learn about early technology and how things have been improved over the years.
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[2016]
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128 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm
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English
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Introduces the automotive, engineering, and labor innovator, discussing both his finer points and his flaws and also providing 21 hands-on activities to encourage young people to apply engineering and production ideas and learn more about the era.
14) Henry Ford
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[2013]
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The television program Henry Ford paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century. Ford's Model T automobile and his five-dollar-a-day wage ushered in the modern world, earning Ford reverence from millions of Americans. Yet many of the changes he wrought deeply troubled the car maker. In frustration, he battled his workers and bullied those who looked up to him,...
17) Henry Ford
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[2000]
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24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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A brief biography of the man whose Model T automobile made the gasoline powered car affordable to Americans.
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[2012]
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x, 422 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler grabbed the lifeline, but Ford decided to save itself. Under the leadership of charismatic CEO Alan Mulally, the man who had saved Boeing, Ford had put together a bold plan to unify its divided global operations, transform its lackluster...
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