| Author | Wik, Reynold M.
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| Title | Henry Ford and grass roots America / Reynold M. Wik.
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| Published | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1972.
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| Description | viii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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| ISBN | 0472972006 |
| ISBN | 9780472972005 |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Henry Ford: the emergence of a folk hero -- The automobile alters the rural scene -- The Ford name spreads across rural America -- Barnyard inventors and the Model T -- Henry Ford's tractors and agriculture -- Farmers' faith in Henry Ford -- Ford and the farm cooperative movement -- Ford, science, and rural ecology -- Ford's politics and the common man -- The Great Depression and the Ford response -- Ford and the little red schoolhouse -- "Dear Mr. Ford. . ." -- Ford in retrospect.5050.
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| Subjects | Automobile industry and trade -- United States -- History.
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947.
Industrialists -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Rural conditions.
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| LC Card Number | 76-163627 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: CT 275 F68 W663 1972
CA-1903773: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 77543] |
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