Summary: Rose Wilder Lane was a newspaper reporter, free-lance writer, political activist, and the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the “Little House” series of popular children’s books. In this biography of Henry Ford, Ms. Lane worked directly with Ford to tell his story from his birth to his founding of the Ford Motor Company and his use of modern assembly lines to mass produce his cars. (Summary by Lee Ann Howlett.)
Total running time: 4 hours and 27 minutes
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09 – The Lure Of The Machine Shops
12 – Learning About Electricity
13 – Eight Hours, But Not For Himself
14 – Struggling With The First Car
21 – Early Manufacturing Trials
22 – Automobiles For The Masses
23 – Fighting The Seldon Patent
24 – “The Greatest Good To The Greatest Number”
25 – Five Dollars A Day Minimum
