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When Henry Ford took his gasoline-powered 'quadricycle' for a test drive that rainy June day in 1896, automobiles were toys for rich people. But this fiercely independent visionary had a dream. He wanted to build 'a motor car for the great multitude' so inexpensive that 'no man making a good salary will be unable to own one'. The affordable Model T made Henry one of the world's richest and most celebrated industrialists - and revolutionized modern society. In "Driven", Don Mitchell weaves archival photographs from the Benson Ford Research Center and carefully selected quotes from Henry Ford himself with his own lively narrative to explores the complex nature of a true visionary. Readers see him as a dutiful but rebellious son, determined designer, racecar driver, family man, environmentalist, friend of the workingman, reformer, and philanthropist extraordinaire. They also discover that, as is often true, such a brilliant mind had its 'dark side' - the side that led to a written campaign against Jews, the use of spies and thugs against suspected union organizers, and the destruction of one of the most important relationships in his life. Yet it was his desire to benefit all of society that triumphed.
