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Carefully crafted from thousands of Ford archives written interviews and firsthand accounts told by people who knew the man Edsel The Story of Henry Fords Forgotten Son brings into focus the remarkable life of Edsel FordThe book chronicles Edsels life from his early days of growing up in and around his fathers company through the controversy of his World War I draft notice and eventual exemption the design change from the Model T to the Model A and the creation of the Ford FoundationTwentyseven chapters in all help to shed light on the life of a man who preferred to spend most of his life out of the limelight. Obviously, his success was far from instant. He worked in a machine shop. He worked evenings repairing watches. He was a night shift foreman in an electric generating facility. Even when he decided to . Edsel. Ford 2014 . EVERY DAY . COUNTS!. Edsel Ford’s 2014. State Ranking. . ROCKETS. . 29. . Points!. READING SCORES . UP. . 10%. WRITING SCORES . JUMP. . 11%. MATH SCORES . Rose Myers 2. nd. Grade Indian Hills Elementary . School. Overview: . The purpose of this lesson is to explore Henry Ford and the innovations he made with automobiles and how these innovations impacted Kansas. . The plot is what happens in the story.. Characters. The characters are the people and animals in a story.. Problems . Every story has problems that the characters in it must solve.. Solving their problems often causes characters to change and grow.. Culturally. Jazz Age---Louis Armstrong . Harlem Renaissance---Langston Hughes . Baseball---Babe Ruth . Automobile---Henry Ford . Airplane---Charles Lindbergh. . Jazz Age---Louis Armstrong . Louis . Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo," "Pops" and, later, "Ambassador . Rose Myers 2. nd. Grade Indian Hills Elementary . School. Overview: . The purpose of this lesson is to explore Henry Ford and the innovations he made with automobiles and how these innovations impacted Kansas. . Henry Ford’s Idea. Henry Food had the idea to create an automobile that everyone could afford. To make this dream come true, he utilized the assembly line, and hired those he considered dedicated to their work. A strict, but fair employer, Ford paid a higher wage to his employees with their agreement to maintain high productivity. . Henry Ford’s Idea. Henry Food had the idea to create an automobile that everyone could afford. To make this dream come true, he utilized the assembly line, and hired those he considered dedicated to their work. A strict, but fair employer, Ford paid a higher wage to his employees with their agreement to maintain high productivity. . Chief Medical Officer , Henry Ford Physician Network (HF PN) . P reviously Dr. Muma serve d as Chief Medical Officer of Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital (HFWBH) 2007 – 2013, as well as Few cars in history have grabbed the public’s fancy as much as the ill-fated Edsel?the Titanic of automobiles, a marketing disaster whose magnitude has made it a household word. Remarkably, there has never before been a book that tells the whole story?how the Edsel was planned, created, produced, and marketed. This richly illustrated book is the result of years of research by an award-winning automotive historian with access to the dark reaches of the Ford Motor Company’s archives. The author also interviewed most of the original key Edsel design team stylists, who have supplied additional archival material. The result is a unique history of the Edsel program from the initial discussions in the late 1940s, through the first sketches in the mid-1950s, to the last, unlamented 1960 models. The Edsel story, however, deals with much more than a new brand of car. It was a key component in a deadly serious corporate undertaking at Ford Motor Company following World War II. Ford wanted to remedy years of mismanagement and return the company to parity with General Motors by dramatically expanding Ford’s presence in the burgeoning medium-priced field. The Edsel was the most spectacular failure in that effort, but was only one pawn in a complex, high-stakes chess game that was a thoroughgoing disaster from start to finish. In the case of the Edsel, the failure was the result of almost too many factors to count: poorly conceived marketing, contentious internal corporate politics, bad quality control, and, ultimately, lack of support at the higher reaches of the corporation. The greatest irony of all, though, is that the Edsel?as this book demonstrates in its surprising conclusion?was actually a modest success that deserved continued management support. Henry\'s Attic provides fascinating documentation of some of the one million artifacts in the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. The items represent both Henry Ford\'s passion for collecting Americana and the astonishing array of gifts-some of great historic value and others of a distinctly homegrown variety-that account for almost half of the museum\'s collections. It was the quantity of these gifts and the unusual and even unique nature of many of them that provided the inspiration for this book. Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, which Ford established in Dearborn, Michigan in the late 1920s, was intended to recreate the slow-paced, rural character of America before the advent of the automobile. The purchases he made and the gifts he was given reflect his desire to document and preserve the lifeways of common people and to emphasize middle-class rural history, as represented by the tools of agriculture, industry, and transportation. Carefully crafted from thousands of Ford archives, written interviews, and first-hand accounts told by people who knew the man, Edsel: The Story of Henry Ford\'s Forgotten Son, brings into focus the remarkable life of Edsel Ford.The book chronicle\'s Edsel\'s life from his early days of growing up in and around his father\'s company, through the controversy of his World War I draft notice and eventual exemption, the design change from the Model T to the Model A, and the creation of the Ford Foundation.Twenty-seven chapters in all help to shed light on the life of a man who preferred to spend most of his life out of the limelight. Few cars in history have grabbed the public’s fancy as much as the ill-fated Edsel?the Titanic of automobiles, a marketing disaster whose magnitude has made it a household word. Remarkably, there has never before been a book that tells the whole story?how the Edsel was planned, created, produced, and marketed. This richly illustrated book is the result of years of research by an award-winning automotive historian with access to the dark reaches of the Ford Motor Company’s archives. The author also interviewed most of the original key Edsel design team stylists, who have supplied additional archival material. The result is a unique history of the Edsel program from the initial discussions in the late 1940s, through the first sketches in the mid-1950s, to the last, unlamented 1960 models. The Edsel story, however, deals with much more than a new brand of car. It was a key component in a deadly serious corporate undertaking at Ford Motor Company following World War II. Ford wanted to remedy years of mismanagement and return the company to parity with General Motors by dramatically expanding Ford’s presence in the burgeoning medium-priced field. The Edsel was the most spectacular failure in that effort, but was only one pawn in a complex, high-stakes chess game that was a thoroughgoing disaster from start to finish. In the case of the Edsel, the failure was the result of almost too many factors to count: poorly conceived marketing, contentious internal corporate politics, bad quality control, and, ultimately, lack of support at the higher reaches of the corporation. The greatest irony of all, though, is that the Edsel?as this book demonstrates in its surprising conclusion?was actually a modest success that deserved continued management support. Henry\'s Attic provides fascinating documentation of some of the one million artifacts in the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. The items represent both Henry Ford\'s passion for collecting Americana and the astonishing array of gifts-some of great historic value and others of a distinctly homegrown variety-that account for almost half of the museum\'s collections. It was the quantity of these gifts and the unusual and even unique nature of many of them that provided the inspiration for this book. Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, which Ford established in Dearborn, Michigan in the late 1920s, was intended to recreate the slow-paced, rural character of America before the advent of the automobile. The purchases he made and the gifts he was given reflect his desire to document and preserve the lifeways of common people and to emphasize middle-class rural history, as represented by the tools of agriculture, industry, and transportation.