The
American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third
Reich by Max Wallace
Book Description: Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh have long been exalted as two of the
greatest American icons of the twentieth century. From award-winning journalist
Max Wallace comes groundbreaking and astonishing revelations about the
poisonous effect these two so-called American heroes had on Western democracy.
In his wide ranging investigation, Wallace goes further than any other
historian to expose how Ford and Lindbergh-acting in league with the Nazis-almost
brought democratic Europe to the verge of extinction. With unprecedented
access to declassified FBI and military intelligence files, Wallace reveals
how the close friendship and ideological bond between automotive pioneer
Ford and aviator Lindbergh culminated in an abuse of power that helped
strengthen Hitler's regime and undermined the Allied war effort. Wallace
traces Henry Ford's ties to Nazi Germany back as far as the 1920s, presenting
compelling evidence of a financial paper trail proving that Ford subsidized
the rise to power of Adolph Hitler, who described Ford as "my inspiration."
For the first time, the genesis of Ford's notorious Anti-Semitism is uncovered:
The American Axis proves that Ford's private secretary and life-long confidante
was a German spy, who channeled his employer's Jew-baiting crusades to
further the cause of the Third Reich. Lindbergh's own anti-Semitism and
white-Supremacist views captured the attention of the Nazis, who soon manipulated
him in their clandestine Fifth Column efforts. As the first unauthorized
biographer to gain access to the Lindbergh archives, Wallace paints a substantially
more chilling portrait of Lindbergh's pre-war activities than any previous
historian and produces new evidence that the Nazis secretly plotted to
install Lindbergh as the leader of the movement to keep America out of
World War Two. The most controversial corporate investigation since IBM
and the Holocaust, the book reveals that the Ford Motor Company's military
and political complicity in the Third Reich war effort was considerably
stronger than the company has acknowledged and that a US Army post-war
investigation concluded that the company had become "an arsenal of Nazism."
Wallace disputes a recent internal investigation into the use of slave
labor at Ford's German plant during World War II - which company officials
claimed as a vindication of its wartime activities - and reveals that corporate
President Edsel Ford was about to be indicted by the US government for
"Trading With the Enemy" at the time of his 1943 death. The American Axis
is not only a mesmerizing, cautionary tale, but a compelling historical
expose.
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: August, 2003
The
Aviation Legacy of Henry & Edsel Ford by Timothy J. O'Callaghan
Book Description: The Aviation Legacy of Henry & Edsel Ford
is the definitive documentation of the Ford's contributions in the development
of aviation from the 1920s through World War II. This 208 page book contains
over 160 beautifully reproduced photographs; almost 100 of which are being
published for the first time. There is documentation proving the existence
of four Flivver airplanes; a point which has been debated for decades.
The book also covers, in detail, such topics as Ford's first airplane -
Inauguration of the Ford Air Transportation Service - Development of the
Ford Tri-Motor - North and Sount Pole Expeditions - Erection of a mooring
mast and visits of Army and Navy dirigibles and much more.
Hardcover: 208 pages
Proctor Pubns; ISBN: 1928623018; (July 2001)
Henry
Ford: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management: Two-Volume Set (Critical
Evaluations in Business and Management) by John C. Wood (Editor), et al
Book Description: This collection features articles on the contributions
made by Henry Ford to American management practices. An eccentric, yet
enlightened thinker, Ford helped to turn F. W. Taylor's ideas of scientific
management into a "system of production" characterized by highly efficient,
high-volume, vertically integrated production, with high wages and low
prices. This set reprints in one place the essential articles on the methods
and management ideas that made the motorcar the defining product of the
twentieth century.
(Library Binding - December 2002)
Out of Print - Try Used Books
Henry
Ford and the Jews Neil Baldwin
Henry Ford was not only one of America's great industrialists, he was
also one of America's great haters. With "his rambling mouth" and his "volatile
passions and budgetless financial resources," Ford became famous around
the country and the world for his rabid anti-Semitism. "He did not like
the Jews because he believed they were warmongering, manipulative, and
alien," writes Neil Baldwin. A pacifist, Ford blamed the First World War
on "German-Jewish bankers." In the 1920s, he published The Dearborn
Independent, which featured notorious articles such as "The International
Jew: The World's Problem." In 1938, he became the first American recipient
of a Nazi award bestowed upon non-Germans. Baldwin details Ford's views
and activities and also describes the phenomenon of anti-Semitism in the
United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Henry Ford once declared, infamously,
"History is more or less the bunk." His descendents seem to disagree. "Beginning
with Henry Ford II," writes Baldwin, "succeeding generations of Fords have
sought to put an end to Henry Ford's dark legacy" by supporting Israel
and Jewish charities. Their actions bear out what one Jewish newspaper
said in response to Ford in 1920: "We are firm in our belief that stupidity
cannot triumph." --John Miller - Amazon.com PublicAffairs
Hardcover - 17 December, 2001
Today
and Tomorrow by Henry Ford
Originally published in 1926, Today and Tomorrow, written by the world's
most famous automaker, Henry Ford, reveals the thinking that changed industry
forever.
Ford's ideas have never stopped having an impact. Taiichi Ohno, the
creator of the Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing system, freely acknowledges
that a key stimulus to JIT was his close reading of Ford. Today these same
ideas have re-emerged to revitalize industry around the world.
Today and Tomorrow chronicles Ford's progressive vision. It was his
credo of using low-cost, high-quality production to win market share that
inspired the Japanese to do the same.
Hardcover Reprint edition (June 1988)
Productivity Pr; ISBN: 0915299364
Wheels
for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003 by Douglas Brinkley
In conjunction with its 100th anniversary, the Ford Motor Company opened
its monumental archives to the unfettered research of author/historian
Douglas Brinkley. And while the 800-page history that resulted from that
work (as well as Brinkley's tireless, amply footnoted source work elsewhere)
is comprehensive to a fault, the scope and enduring impact of the industrial
colossus wrought by Henry Ford make it often seem like mere introduction.
Brinkley's meticulous, enlightened work can't help but find endless fascination
with the company's founder, whose presence resonates through every phase
of the company's history, from its fitful start (FMC was the third company
to bear the Ford name), through the rise of the Model T (still one of the
most ubiquitous and revolutionary mechanical contrivances of the last millennia),
to its cycles of corporate decay and rebirth (variously via Iacocca's Mustang
in the 60's and the technical innovations and potent retrenchment of trans-nationalism
in the 90's). Henry Ford remains one of the greatest human paradoxes in
a century filled with them: a largely self-taught engineer who couldn't
read a blueprint, yet became a mass-production visionary; an employer whose
social conscience (and no small amount of shrewd business acumen) doubled
the salary of his employees one era, employed thugs to crush their union
organizing efforts the next; a world figure who read little, yet published
much, including anti-war editorials and vile, anti-Semitic tracts--despite
the fact that his monumental manufacturing facilities were designed by
Jews whose friendship and professional relationships he cultivated. The
enviro-social impact of Ford's industrial innovations continues to loom,
and Brinkley hardly ignores them. But his research is largely focused on
the rich players (and their often perplexing psychology) of the Ford saga,
all-too-human characters whose ambitious empire will continue to cast its
long shadows over many a generation to come. --Jerry McCulley - Amazon.com Hardcover from Viking Press
Book Published: 28 April, 2003
