My Life and Work

Henry Ford's autobiography, written with Samuel Crowther, sets out the life and working ideas of the man behind the Ford Motor Company and the Model T. It opens on May 31, 1921, the day the company turned out its five millionth car, and goes back to his birth in 1863 on a farm in Dearborn, Michigan, where the heavy hand labor made him suspect there might be a better way and drew him into mechanics. He recalls the gasoline buggy he began work on some thirty years earlier, which first ran well in the spring of 1893. Ford argues for efficiency, mass production and cars that ordinary Americans could afford. It was first published in 1922.