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Henry Ford’s Own Story

by Rose Wilder Lane

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  1. 1Foreword
  2. 2Chapter I — One Summer’s Day
  3. 3Chapter II — Mending a Watch
  4. 4Chapter III — The First Job
  5. 5Chapter IV — An Exacting Routine
  6. 6Chapter V — Getting the Machine Idea
  7. 7Chapter VI — Back to the Farm
  8. 8Chapter VII — The Road to Hymen
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Making a Farm Efficient
  10. 10Chapter IX — The Lure of the Machine Shops
  11. 11Chapter X — “Why Not Use Gasoline?”
  12. 12Chapter XI — Back to Detroit
  13. 13Chapter XII — Learning About Electricity
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Eight Hours, but Not for Himself
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Struggling with the First Car
  16. 16Chapter XV — A Ride in the Rain
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Enter Coffee Jim
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Another Eight Years
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Winning a Race
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Raising Capital
  21. 21Chapter XX — Clinging to a Principle
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Early Manufacturing Trials
  23. 23Chapter XXII — Automobiles for the Masses
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Fighting the Seldon Patent
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — “The Greatest Good to the Greatest Number”
  26. 26Chapter XXV — Five Dollars a Day Minimum
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Making It Pay
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — The Importance of a Job
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — A Great Educational Institution
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — The European War
  31. 31Chapter XXX — The Best Preparedness

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