The Expanded And Annotated My Life And Work

Author : William A. Levinson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466557729
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expanded and Annotated My Life and Work written by William A. Levinson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Ford's industrial innovations were directly responsible for the transformation of the United States into the most productive, affluent, and powerful nation on Earth. My Life and Work describes exactly how Ford did this in terms of not only manufacturing science, but also economics and organizational behavior. This holistic approach, and its v

Author : Henry Ford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781460922439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life and Work written by Henry Ford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Life and Work", by Henry Ford, reads not only as a memoir of an American icon, but also shows the spirit that built America. Written in 1922, this work provides a unique insight into the observations, ideas, and problem solving skills of this remarkable man. He shares his success and his failures and the lessons he learned form both. Throughout, Ford shows a constant belief in the value of hard work and in the goodness of men. It is a story of management, of ethics, of observation, of history and of greatness. This book includes quote highlights, photos and a special area for a reader to jot notes.

Author : Calvin Coolidge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684516862
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge written by Calvin Coolidge and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was my hope to produce a book that would not only have some historical interest, but would be useful for those in public life, in educational work, in preparation for citizen­ship, and would be especially a book that parents would wish their children to read." —President Calvin Coolidge on his autobiography Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different politi­cal model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past . . . to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and annotated volume, edited by Coolidge biographer Amity Shlaes and authorized by the Coolidge family, is the definitive edition of the text that presidential historian Craig Fehrman calls "the forgotten classic of presidential writing." To read this volume is to understand the tragic extent to which historians underrate President Coolidge. The Coolidge who emerges in these pages is a model of character, principle, and humility—rare qualities in Washington, then as now. A man of great faith, Coolidge told Americans: "Men do not make laws. They do but discover them." Although he emphasized economics, Coolidge insisted on the importance of "things of the spirit." At the height of his popularity, he chose not to run again when his reelection was all but assured. In this autobiography, Coolidge explains his mindset: "It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man." For all his modesty, Coolidge left an expansive legacy—one we would do well to study today. Shlaes and ­coeditor ­Matthew Denhart draw out the lessons from Coolidge's life and career in an enlightening introduction and annotations to Coolidge's text. To aid Coolidge scholars young and old, the editors have also assembled nearly three dozen photographs, several of Coolidge's greatest speeches, a timeline of Coolidge's life, and afterwords by former Vermont governor James H. Douglas and two of Coolidge's great-grandchildren, Jennifer Coolidge Harville and Christopher Coolidge Jeter. This autobiography combats the myths about one of our most misunderstood presidents. It also shows us how much we still have to learn from Calvin Coolidge.

Author : Henry Ford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781718908918
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life and Work written by Henry Ford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One world's richest and best-known people in his day, Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company and a pioneering innovator of mass production. Ford's autobiography, My Life and Work, gives personal insight into the life of this prolific inventor and titan of industry. For the time, Ford awarded high wages to his workers despite his driving commitment towards reducing costs, which he did instead through the channels of business and technological innovation. Ford's vision held consumerism as a cornerstone of global peace and prosperity. In spite of not believing in accountants, Ford amassed an enormous wealth, most of which he left to the Ford Foundation.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maine Woods written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Nokes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 080508651X
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by David Nokes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work.

Author : Samuel Crowther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781976915642
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life and My Work written by Samuel Crowther and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Ford was an American commander of industry and a business head honcho, the originator of the Ford Motor Company, and the patron of the improvement of the mechanical production system procedure of large scale manufacturing. In spite of the fact that Ford did not create the vehicle or the sequential construction system, he created and produced the main car that many white collar class Americans could bear. In doing as such, Ford changed over the car from a costly interest into a reasonable transport that would significantly affect the scene of the twentieth century. His presentation of the Model T car upset transportation and American industry. As the proprietor of the Ford Motor Company, he wound up noticeably one of the wealthiest and best-known individuals on the planet. He is credited with "Fordism": large scale manufacturing of cheap merchandise combined with high wages for laborers. Portage had a worldwide vision, with consumerism as the way to peace. His serious responsibility regarding methodicallly bringing down expenses brought about numerous specialized and business developments, including an establishment framework that put dealerships all through a large portion of North America and in significant urban areas on six mainlands. Passage left the vast majority of his tremendous riches to the Ford Foundation and masterminded his family to control the organization forever.Mary (White) Rowlandson was a colonial American woman who was captured during an attack by Native Americans during King Philip's War and held ransom for 11 weeks and 5 days. After being released, she wrote A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, also known as The Sovereignty and Goodness of God. It is a work in the literary genre of captivity narratives. It is considered to be one of America's first bestsellers, four editions appearing in 1682 when it was first published.

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674060172
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Annotated Origin written by Charles Darwin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents Darwin's masterwork on evolution with extensive annotations by an experienced field biologist.

Author : James L. Buckley
Publisher : Isi Books
ISBN 13 : 9781933859118
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gleanings from an Unplanned Life written by James L. Buckley and published by Isi Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was born in an elevator in New York City's Women's Hospital in the early hours of March 9, 1923. That was the first of a series of unplanned, unanticipatable events that have shaped my life. It was also a rather unceremonious way to enter the world. I wouldn't have entered it at all, however, had it not been for an allergy gene that caused my paternal grandfather, who was beset by asthma, to abandon Canada for the starker landscape of south Texas. At least it seems unlikely that my father would have courted my New Orleans mother if he had been reared in Canada." "I grew up in a small rural community located in the northwest corner of Connecticut beyond commuting range from anywhere. I loved the life there; and while bobbing around the Pacific as a naval officer in World War II, I decided on a career as a country lawyer. After four years learning the trade at a New Haven law firm in preparation for a move to the country, I was lured away by my father and found myself working for a family business headquartered in New York City. Then through a series of wildly improbable circumstances, beginning with the decision of my brother Bill to run for the office of mayor of New York City on the strict understanding that he could not win, I have found myself among the very few who have served in high positions in all three branches of the federal government; in my case, as a senator, an under secretary of state, and, most recently, as an appellate judge."

Author : Emma Goldman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101007354
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living My Life written by Emma Goldman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous—and notorious—woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin’s Bolshevik experiment, and more. Sounding a call still heard today, Living My Life is a riveting account of political ferment and ideological turbulence. First time in Penguin Classics Condensed to half the length of Goldman's original work, this edition is accessible to those interested in the activist and her extraordinary era