67° A Few CloudsAmerican Experience: Henry Ford
"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 carmaker. In frustration, he lashed out at enemies, real and imagined, blamed Jews for the country’s problems, bullied those who worked for him and exhibited great cruelty to his only son, often, it seemed, wishing to retreat to an idyllic fantasy of the past.
Henry Ford and Edsel Ford in Ford Model F Automobile, 1905.
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Henry Ford, James Couzens, Elwood Rice and Gaston Plantiff in Ford Model K Car, 1907.
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Henry Ford in his office at the Highland Park Plant, 1913.
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Ford Model T Chassis outside Highland Park Plant, 1914.
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Henry Ford ca. 1915.
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Edsel Ford and Henry Ford ca. 1915.
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The Ford English School graduating class as they emerged from the "Melting Pot," 1916.
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Henry Ford and Edsel Ford with Fordson Tractor, 1921.
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Henry Ford with Ford Model T, Buffalo, New York, 1921.
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