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Book

The vagabonds : the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's ten-year road trip

Call Numbers

  • H 920 G9645 (CEN)
  • 920 G9645 (OSH)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Physical Description

306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary

"A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"--

Contents

  • Prologue: Paris, Michigan : mid-August 1923
  • 1914
  • 1915
  • 1916
  • 1918
  • 1919
  • 1920
  • 1921
  • Interim: November 1921-June 1923
  • 1923
  • 1924
  • Jep Bisbee is famous.

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