FS Henry Ford and Grass-roots America - Book
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 10:21 pm
Book: "Henry Ford and Grass-roots America". Author, Reynold M. Wik. Published by the University of Michigan Press at Ann Arbor. First printing in 1972. Purchased in 1972 at the Henry Ford Museum Gift Shop in Dearborn. Original price $10.00. Selling for original price of $10.00 plus the ride to the buyer. Hardback book with dust jacket, 266 pages. Book, itself appears in new condition. Dust cover shows wear on edges. Contains pictures but all are in black and white. The book mostly details Fords personal life as opposed to the Ford Motor Company. Chapters include: Henry Ford: the emergence of a folk hero; The automobile alters the rural scene; The Ford name spreads across America; Barnyard inventors and the Model T; Henry Ford's tractors and agriculture; Ford's politics and the common man; and seven more chapters