The Fords: An American Epic
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the heart of twentieth-century America stands a dynasty whose ambitions, rivalries, and triumphs shaped the modern world — the Fords. Peter Collier and David Horowitz chronicle three generations of the Ford family, from the obsessive genius of Henry Ford, who revolutionised industry and redefined the American Dream, through the tortured reign of his son Edsel, to the embattled struggles of Henry Ford II to preserve and modernise a crumbling empire. Set against the sweeping backdrop of industrial America, the narrative captures the grandeur and the dysfunction of a family whose fortunes were inextricably bound to the fate of a nation. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and exhaustive research, Collier and Horowitz present a portrait of power, paranoia, and succession that reads with the compulsive momentum of a great American novel. The authors — renowned for their earlier dynastic biography The Rockefellers — bring the same unflinching analytical rigour and narrative drive to the Ford saga, unearthing the private tragedies and public scandals that lay beneath the polished chrome surface of a corporate legend. What emerges is a story that raises urgent questions about the price of greatness and whether any dynasty, however mighty, can outrun its own contradictions.
Author: Peter Collier And David Horowitz
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the heart of twentieth-century America stands a dynasty whose ambitions, rivalries, and triumphs shaped the modern world — the Fords. Peter Collier and David Horowitz chronicle three generations of the Ford family, from the obsessive genius of Henry Ford, who revolutionised industry and redefined the American Dream, through the tortured reign of his son Edsel, to the embattled struggles of Henry Ford II to preserve and modernise a crumbling empire. Set against the sweeping backdrop of industrial America, the narrative captures the grandeur and the dysfunction of a family whose fortunes were inextricably bound to the fate of a nation. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and exhaustive research, Collier and Horowitz present a portrait of power, paranoia, and succession that reads with the compulsive momentum of a great American novel. The authors — renowned for their earlier dynastic biography The Rockefellers — bring the same unflinching analytical rigour and narrative drive to the Ford saga, unearthing the private tragedies and public scandals that lay beneath the polished chrome surface of a corporate legend. What emerges is a story that raises urgent questions about the price of greatness and whether any dynasty, however mighty, can outrun its own contradictions.