In The Fords: An American Epic, Peter Collier and David Horowitz tell
the riveting story of three generations of Fords, a dramatic story of
conflict between fathers and sons played out against the backdrop of
America's greatest industrial empire.
The story begins with the first Henry Ford, the mechanical wizard,
tinkerer and "mad genius" who drove the automobile into the heart of
American life and conquered the world with it. An American Original, by
the end of his life he had become an embittered crank who so
possessively loved the company he built that when his son, Edsel, tried
to change it to suit the changing times, Henry destroyed him. It was
left to Edsel's son Henry II to avenge him and save the Ford Motor
Company in the postwar world.
From the details of the first Henry's illicit affair and illegitimate
son, to the life and loves of "Hank the Deuce" and his celebrated feud
with Lee Iacocca, this is an engrossing account of a vital chapter in
American history. The authors have added new material to this classic
work, showing how Henry II's line lost out to the line of his brother
William Clay Ford in the quest to control this most American of
companies in the twenty-first century.
In addition to The Fords, Peter Collier and David Horowitz are the
authors of dynastic biographies of the Kennedys, Roosevelts,
Rockefellers, and Fondas.
