The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century (Vintage) (120 page)

48.
Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
pp. 147, 164, 26; Hayward S. Ablewhite, “Reminiscences,” pp. 73–74.

49.
Zoerlein, “Reminiscences,” pp. 72–73; Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 311–12.

50.
Black, “Reminiscences,” p. 59; Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 311, 259–60.

51.
Dominguez,
Edsel,
pp. 117, 261; Douglas Brinkley,
Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress
(New York, 2003), p. 471.

52.
Black, “Reminiscences,” pp. 55–56. See also Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 274–76.

53.
Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
p. 149; Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 27, 261–63, 314; Black, “Reminiscences,” pp. 54–55; Ablewhite, “Reminiscences,” p. 72.

54.
Lawrence Sheldrick, “Reminiscences,” pp. 83, 311–12; Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 301–2, 304–5, 313.

55.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 314–15.

56.
Ibid., pp. 317–18, 323.

57.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 317–19; Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
p. 164; Dominguez,
Edsel,
pp. 306–7.

58.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 320–22.

59.
Dominguez,
Edsel,
pp. 311–13; Cameron, “Reminiscences,” p. 110, quoted in text; Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 323–24, quoted in text.

60.
Cameron, “Reminiscences,” p. 110; John McIntyre, “Reminiscences,” p. 27; Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
p. 165.

61.
Liebold, “Reminiscences,” pp. 1175–76; Gus Munchow, “Reminiscences,” p. 60; Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
pp. 166, 168.

62.
Charles Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” pp. 165–66; Geoffrey Upward,
A Home for Our Heritage: The Building and Growth of Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum, 1929–1979
(Dearborn, 1979), p. 119.

63.
Joseph Zaroski, “Reminiscences,” p. 23; Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
p. 168.

64.
Robert A. Smith, “Reminiscences,” p. 19; Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” p. 34; Tom Phillips, “Reminiscences,” p. 22; Wilson, “Reminiscences,” pp. 34–36.

65.
Louise Clancy and Florence Davies,
The Believer: The Life Story of Mrs. Henry Ford
(New York, 1960), pp. 199–201.

66.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
p. 324; Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
p. 167; Nevins and Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth,
pp. 243, 250.

67.
Joseph Galamb, “Reminiscences,” p. 30; Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
pp. 167, 170.

68.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 324–25, 327.

69.
Joe McCarthy, “The Ford Family,”
Holiday,
Aug. 1957, p. 78; Nevins and Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth,
pp. 257–59.

70.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 328–29; see also Nevins and Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth,
pp. 254–56.

71.
McCarthy, “Ford Family,” p. 78; Nevins and Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth,
pp. 264–65; Henry Ford II, interview with David Lewis, early 1980s, p. 27, in FA.

72.
Liebold, “Reminiscences,” p. 1186; Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
pp. 136, 165.

73.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 329–30; Mrs. Frank Campsall, “Reminiscences,” pp. 12–13; Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
pp. 172, 176.

74.
Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
pp. 176, 178; Roy Bryant, “Reminiscences,” pp. 45–47; Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 98–99; John McIntyre, “Reminiscences,” pp. 29–30.

75.
Statement of Dr. John G. Mateer, July 17, 1951, in
Edgar Leroy Bryant
v.
Clara Ford Estate,
in acc. 513, box 12, FA.

76.
McCarthy, “Ford Family,” p. 78; Nevins and Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth,
pp. 248–50, 265–66, 268; Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
p. 174.

77.
McCarthy, “Ford Family,” p. 78; HF II, interview with Lewis, p. 26; Nevins and Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth,
pp. 260–61.

78.
HF II, interview with Lewis, p. 29; Nevins and Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth,
pp. 268–69; Bennett,
We Never Called Him Henry,
p. 178; Irving Bacon, “Reminiscences,” p. 211; McCarthy, “Ford Family,” p. 79.

79.
Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 98–101.

80.
Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” p. 189; Rankin, “Reminiscences,” pp. 32–36; Edward J. Cutler, “Reminiscences,” p. 163; Bacon, “Reminiscences,” pp. 210–11; Wallace G. Beesley, “Reminiscences,” p. 27.

81.
Thompson, “Reminiscences,” pp. 43–45.

82.
HF, “Thoughts for the Future,” pp. 2–3, 5–8, 11–14, in Vertical File—“Ford, Henry, Thinking About,” FA.

83.
Ibid., pp. 9, 15, 16–19.

84.
Ibid., pp. 19–23.

85.
Ibid., pp. 24–27, 28–32.

86.
Thompson, “Reminiscences,” p. 46.

1.
Robert Rankin, “Reminiscences,” p. 67.

2.
Ibid., pp. 66–69.

3.
Ibid., pp. 66, 69–70; Charles Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” pp. 191–92.

4.
John McIntyre, “Reminiscences,” pp. 31–32; Mrs. Stanley Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” p. 102.

5.
Rankin, “Reminiscences,” pp. 71–73; Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 102–3; “Henry Ford Dies in Cold, Oil Light,” Detroit
Times,
April 8, 1947; Henry Ford II, interview with David Lewis, 1986, p. 37, in FA; Ford R. Bryan,
Clara: Mrs. Henry Ford
(Dearborn, 2001), p. 297.

6.
“Detroit Dynasty,”
Time,
April 21, 1947, pp. 28–29; David L. Lewis,
The Public Image of Henry Ford: An American Folk Hero and His Company
(Detroit, 1976), pp. 476–77.

7.
Sigmund Diamond,
The Reputation of the American Businessman
(Cambridge, Mass., 1955), pp. 141–44, 156–65, and Lewis,
Public Image,
pp. 474–76, provide convenient excerpts from the vast commentary after Ford's death.

8.
Charles E. Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford
(New York, 1956), p. 35.

9.
See David Farber,
Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors
(Chicago, 2002), for an insightful analysis of an industrialist who offers an interesting contrast to Ford in his creation of a full-fledged corporate structure that was completely attuned to values of rationalized decision-making, market research, credit, and advertising.

10.
R. L. Bruckberger,
Image of America
(New York, 1959), p. 181; Robert S. Lynd and Helen M. Lynd,
Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture
(New York, 1929), p. 253; Frederick Lewis Allen,
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
(New York, 1931), p. 136.

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