Ford Motor Company

<p><span class="deck"> —a complex man</span> </p>

<p>A scrappy and reckless farm boy from Ohio became America's most legendary race car driver, and his widely publicized victories in Henry Ford's racing cars helped the aspiring entrepreneur launch Ford Motor Company</p>

<p><span class="deck"> A leading authority picks the top ten. Some of the names still have the power to stir the blood. And some will surprise you.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">He invented modern mass-production. He gave the world the first people’s car, and Americans loved him for it. But, at the moment of his greatest triumph, he turned on the empire he had built, and on the son who would inherit it.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Charles Sheeler found his subject in the architecture of industry. To him, America’s factories were the cathedrals of the modern age.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">When American cars ruled the world</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The imperium of modern television advertising was born in desperate improvisation.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Decades after they were first cobbled together by enthusiastic amateurs, they are coming to be recognized as one of the supreme folk arts of the American century.</span></p>

<p> Henry Ford's autocratic ways should serve as a warning to other moguls and their corporations.</p>

<p><span class="deck">After Henry Ford changed America, his grandson accomplished something almost as amazing.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Model T Ford made the world we live in. On the 100th anniversary of the company Henry Ford founded, his biographer Douglas Brinkley tells how.</span></p>