<p><span class="deck"> Henry Ford bought a $75,000 Stradivarius, learned to play “Turkey in the Straw,” and tried to teach all those Model T riders how to do-si-do like Grandpa</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">New York to Los Angeles in an unheard-of 48 hours! And what a way to go—luxuriously appointed planes, meals served aloft, and a window seat for every passenger</span> </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">At a time of crisis for American labor, an organizer looks back on the turbulent 50-year career that brought him from the shop floor to the presidency of the United Automobile Workers.</span></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">Every spring, 30,000,000 Americans watch the Indianapolis 500. It’s the nation’s premier racing event and the pinnacle of a glamorous, murderous epic that stretches back nearly a century.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The single best-selling American car isn’t a car at all. It’s a pickup truck. Here’s how it rose from farm hand to fashion accessory.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">George Selden never built a car himself, but he <span class="typestyle"> did</span> manage to secure a patent on every auto manufactured.</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>
