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Author:

Greenleaf, William, 1917-1975. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50031458

Title:

Monopoly on wheels : Henry Ford and the Selden automobile patent / William Greenleaf ; with a new introduction by David L. Lewis.

Publisher:

Wayne State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xxviii, 302 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Ford, Henry,--1863-1947--Trials, litigation, etc.
Selden, George Baldwin,--1846-1922--Trials, litigation, etc.
Patent suits--United States--History--20th century.
Automobile industry and trade--History--United States--History--20th century.
Automobiles--Patents--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-290) and index.

Contents:

Introduction / David L. Lewis -- Prologue : Roots of a legend -- Beginnings -- The long vigil -- Mr. Whitney comes to Hartford -- The opening battle -- David and Goliath -- A mountain of evidence -- The tournament of motors -- Trade war -- Argument and decision -- Path of progress.

Summary:

"The book had its origin in 1952, when I went to Detroit as research associate of the Ford Motor Company History Project sponsored by Columbia University and executed under the directions of Allan Nevins. Some of the material in the present study appeared in different form in the initial volume of the Ford history, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1954 under the title Ford : the times, the man, the company."--Preface.

ISBN:

0814335128
9780814335123

OCLC:

(OCoLC)666490956

LCCN:

2010039050

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)