The Fords by Peter Collier and David Horowitz - 1987: An American Epic

This book is in very good condition. The dust jacket has some wear on the front, back, spine and edges There is no wear on the cover boards. The inside of the front cover boars is signed by the previous owner. The pages are yellowed and tanned, but clear of any markings.

"It was after midnight when a light summer mist started to fall 9outside the backyard workshop and Henry Ford began putting the final touches on the peculiar-looking machine which had obsessed him, in one form or another, all his adult life. On most other evenings, Felix Julien, the old man who lived in the flat next door to the Fords and had cleared out his half of the shed to give the machine more space to grow, would have been there, too, sitting in a corner of the shed, watching the painstaking assembly nin silent awe.... - Prologue: Detroit, June 4, 1896 from The Fords