Henry Ford and Grass-roots AmericaA study of Henry Ford and rural America in the 1920s |
Contents
Henry Ford The Emergence of a Folk Hero | 1 |
The Automobile Alters the Rural Scene | 14 |
The Ford Name Spreads Across Rural America | 34 |
Barnyard Inventors and the Model T | 59 |
Henry Fords Tractors and Agriculture | 82 |
Farmers Faith in Henry Ford | 103 |
Ford and the Farm Cooperative Movement | 126 |
Ford Science and Rural Ecology | 142 |
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