BEVERLY RAE KIMES
Author´s Preface
Introduction
Part One: From Clara´s Kitchen sink to Highland Park
Part Two: Henry and Lizzie-America is put on Ehrrls
Part Three: How do you follow a legend? with another one, of course
Interregnum. The ford nobody noticed, least of all Henry
Part Four: Henry´s last act, the drama of the final years
Subject and illustrations indexes
Photography credits
At the time, in 1978, when The Cars That Henry Ford Built was first published, sending a copy for Henry Ford II to review seemed a vain requestAutomobile Quarterly founding editor and publisher L. Scott Bailey was told that Mr. Ford never comments on a book written about Ford. Two weeks later came an unexpected exhortation from Henry Ford II: My grandfather would have loved this book.
Ford then specially ordered 20 copies bound in white leatherneeded in two weeks. The rush order was necessitated by an upcoming trip to Japan. As is culturally customary to offer a gift that honors ones ancestors, Henry Ford II specifically chose The Cars That Henry Ford Built to give to his Japanese hosts.
Such high-level praise is derived from the books fresh approach to the subject of Henry Ford, both in its study of the man and his cars, as well as the exceptional pictorial presentation. Presented for the first time in full color, there is every model Henry Ford produced from the Quadricycle he put together as a young man in 1896 to the famous V8 Ford on the production lines four and a half decades later during his failing years.
Probably no other individual in automobile history more accurately mirrored in his cars his view of himself and of America as he saw it. Join award-winning historian and author Beverly Rae Kimes as she presents lively historical text that captures Henry growing and aging as his cars grew and aged, each lock-stepped together through history. Over 100 full-color photographs further bring the man and his creations to life.
