Ford: The men and the machine

London: Heinemann, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good +. 1986 London 1st edition. William Heinemann Ltd. Price-clipped. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Some wear to top and bottom of DJ. Some fading to DJ spine. Pages slightly yellowed with age, as is almost always found with this volume. Otherwise excellent. Black and white photos throughout. Some subsidy included in price for high price of posting this heavy book.From the DJ blurb: “Ford - the story of Henry Ford and the dynasty he founded - is in many ways the story of America itself, a story of energy, enterprise, raw ruthless ambition and fabulous rewards. The archetypal frontiersman, the farm boy from the Michigan woods who fought his way up to become one of the wealthiest men in the world, Henry Ford became a folk hero to his countrymen, the subject of countless legends that he himself loved to gild. Robert Lacey, author of bestsellers Majesty, The Kingdom and Princess, has written his most important work so far - a giant history of one of the richest and most powerful families of the twentieth century... Ford is a massive achievement of research that spans a century of industrial and social change, and a thrilling human story of one family’s adventures in the pursuit of wealth and power.”