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Henry's Lieutenants

Ford R. Bryan 		Although Henry Ford gloried in the limelight of highly publicized achievement, he privately admitted, "I don't do so much, I just go around lighting fires under other people."
Henry's Lieutenants features biographies of thirty-five "other people" who served Henry Ford in a variety of capacities, and nearly all of whom contributed to his fame. These biographical sketches and career highlights reflect the people of high caliber employed by Henry Ford to accomplish his goals: Harry Bennett, Albert Kahn, Ernest Kanzler, William S. Knudsen, and Charles E. Sorenson, among others. Most were employed by the Ford Motor Company, although a few of them were Ford's personal employees satisfying concurrent needs of a more private nature, including his farming, educational, and sociological ventures.
Ford Bryan obtained a considerable amount of the material in this book from the oral reminiscences of the subjects themselves.		 "An essential reference for anyone interested in the group of talented subordinates who made Ford's vast and varied empire tick."—Robert Casey, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village

"Endlessly fascinating. A must for all Henry Ford I buffs."—David R. Crippen, Henry Ford Museum

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Great Lakes Books Series

$26.95l paper/ ISBN 0-8143-3213-7

324 pages / 7 x 10
122 photographs

1993 (2003)