| Description |
1 online resource (x, 426 pages) : illustrations |
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Society of Automotive Engineers. Electronic publications |
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Society of Automotive Engineers.
Electronic publications
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| Contents |
A Man Called Edsel -- A Son for Henry -- The Early Years -- From Bicycles to Bugattis -- College Is a Waste of Time -- San Francisco Sojourn -- Courtship and Marriage -- Live Very Simply -- Accusations of Evasion -- Buy-Out -- The Administrator -- Differences in Direction -- From Model T to Model A -- Bank Holiday -- Patron of the Arts -- Aviation Pioneer -- The Byrd Expeditions -- The Lincoln Motor Car Company -- Carossiers -- Felicitous Eye -- Edsel's Sanctuary -- Design Synergy -- The Ford Foundation -- Bennett Motor Company -- Willow Run -- Dark Angel -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
Carefully crafted from thousands of Ford archives, written interviews, and first-hand accounts told by people who knew the man, Edsel: The Story of Henry Ford's Forgotten Son, brings into focus the remarkable life of Edsel Ford |
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The book chronicle's Edsel's life from his early days of growing up in and around his father's company, through the controversy of his World War I draft notice and eventual exemption, the design change from the Model T to the Model A, and the creation of the Ford Foundation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-350) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2014 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943.
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| SUBJECT |
Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943 fast |
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Ford, Edsel (Unternehmer) swd |
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Ford Motor Company -- History
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Ford Motor Company fast |
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Businessmen -- United States -- Biography
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Automobile industry and trade -- United States -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Business.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Automobile Industry.
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Automobile industry and trade
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Businessmen
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Biografie
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Auto-industrie.
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Ford Motor Company.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Society of Automotive Engineers.
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| ISBN |
9780768041873 |
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0768041872 |
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