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Book

The four trials of Henry Ford

Call Number

  • H 921 F699PI (CEN)

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Publication Information

[Place of publication not identified] : Open Books, [2019]

Physical Description

372 pages ; 23 cm.

Summary

"Henry Ford: oracular genius, people's hero, or narcissistic, autocratic bully? In Gregory R. Piché's new book, The Four Trials of Henry Ford, four landmark court cases reveal the dark side of Ford's legal clashes and the quirks of his character and personality that ushered his image in the public's imagination from mechanical savant and populist sage to isolated, imperious bigot. In recounting the Ford litigation, Piché examines Ford's parallel manipulation of public media to advance his own political and narcissistic agenda to become a public sage and an American President. It follows the initial rise of his reputation as a progressive capitalist to its ultimate erosion as a mean-spirited bigot and contributor to the propaganda that fueled the Holocaust."--Back cover.

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