Ford (Review and Analysis of Lacey's Book)
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This complete summary of the ideas from Robert Lacey's book "Ford: The Men and the Machine" tells the fascinating story of the men and women behind the giant automobile industry. In this entertaining and detailed biography, the author focuses on the public and private lives of manufacturer Henry Ford, his son Edsel and his grandson Henry II. This summary offers an insight into how this family-run business empire transformed our way of life, including Ford's early failures, Henry Ford's revolutionary standards and the triumph of the Model T.
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by Robert Lacey
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The Ford Motor Company is today the world’s largest family controlled business. It stands today as a monument to the vision and drive of one man in particular – Henry Ford.
Henry Ford was born on 30 July 1863. His father William and mother Mary were hard working and industrious farmers who had achieved some measure of success – in fact, they owned several hundred acres of land and were very well regarded in the greater Detroit area. Their land was located in Dearborn, a suburb on the outskirts of Detroit.
Henry Ford’s early life was dominated by attending school and the death of his mother while delivering her eighth child. Henry was 13-years old at the time and his mother died at age 37.
Henry, like most boys, enjoyed playing with anything mechanical. However, the sight of a steam engine propelling a rudimentary wagon absolutely fired his imagination. This was July 1876. Henry Ford would later recall:
"I remember that engine as though I had seen it only yesterday. I had seen plenty of these engines hauled around by horses, but this