Chronicles the early life of Henry Ford, the American automotive industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company and pioneered in assembly-line methods of mass production.
the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city
Grandin, Greg
2009
Chronicles Henry Ford's attempts to create an American settlement in the Brazilian Amazon in the late 1920s, discussing the purpose of Ford's settlement, its impact on the region's ecosystem, his efforts to apply a system of regimented mass production to the area, and other related topics.
Presents a brief, fictionalized, account of the events of October 10, 1901, in simple text with illustrations, when Henry Ford drove one of the first automobiles and won a race to earn money to build a new car that anyone could afford.