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Henry Ford: An Interpretation

by Samuel S. Marquis
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Original price ₹3,220.00
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780814333679
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Wayne State University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Wayne State University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 248
  • Original Price: GBP 20.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: New
  • Item Weight: 264 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historical

Regarded by many automotive historians as the finest and most dispassionate character study of Henry Ford ever written, Henry Ford: An Interpretation has long been out of print and priced out of the reach of many collectors. Published at the height of Ford's success in 1923, the volume was written by the Reverend Samuel S. Marquis, an Episcopalian minister who was also the head of the sociology department at Ford Motor Company. Instead of a history of Ford Motor Company or a simple retelling of Ford's life story, Marquis claims that his collection of essays is intended to analyze the "psychological puzzle such as the unusual mind and personality of Henry Ford presents."

In insightful chapters that can be read in any order, Marquis examines Ford's mastery of self-promotion, his invincible reputation, his religious views, and his "elusive" personality. He also considers Ford through the lens of his corporation by commenting on its industrial operations, its charitable causes, and its "executive scrap heap." According to many accounts, Henry Ford was greatly pained by the criticism in some of Marquis's essays, which led him to suppress the wide distribution of the volume. Indeed, so many copies of Henry Ford: An Interpretation were borrowed from the Detroit Public Library and never returned that the library was forced to remove the volume from its shelves. Not surprisingly, the original edition of this book is very expensive and hard to find as a result of these sorts of actions.

Ford history enthusiasts as well as readers who are interested in historical biography will be grateful for the reprint of this significant volume.

Reverend Samuel S. Marquis was an Episcopalian minister who was also the head of Ford Motor Company's Sociological Department from 1919-1921.

David L. Lewis is professor of business at the University of Michigan, author of The Public Image of Henry Ford (Wayne State University Press, 1987), and co-author of The Car and the Camera (Wayne State University Press, 1996).

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