The Amazing Story of Henry Ford by James Martin Miller describes Henry Ford's Birth and Early Boyhood Days-His Struggles as a Farmer, Mechanic and Engineer-The Invention and Development of the Ford Motor Car and Fordson Tractor and Includes a History of the Ford Motor Company and Its Miraculous Growth-His Defiance of Wall Street-His Famous Minimum Wage Scale for Both Men and Women and Its Results-The Peace Ship-His Senatorial Campaign-The Tribune Libel Suit -The Muscle Shoals Project-His Studies in the Jewish Question, Etc., Etc Illustrated from Original Photographs Picturing the Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Henry Ford. Also included: "The 'New Era' Philosophy" by Henry Ford and "The Ford Manual" as published by the Ford Motor Company. * * * ...a few excerpts from the book: "America needs the American Shop. It needs it not only to meet the vast economic problems which confront us in the production of an adequate quantity of goods; but also to solve the problems which have grown out of past injustices on the part of both leadership and labor. "It is pretty well conceded, even by the most slow-minded employer, that the question of production cannot be settled until the question of the producer is settled. The principal and controlling factor in all our difficulties is the human element. Indeed, all our difficulties, of whatever nature, are human difficulties; they are the signs of humanity in trouble.... "The American Way is constructive. It grows out of ideas, not out of violence. It works by education, not by disintegration. Nothing permanent is accomplished by forces pulling apart, because in this country everything that is accomplished comes by various opinions pulling together toward a desired endThere is no difference of opinion in this country as to what we desire our common life to be. All agree on the desired object. The difference comes in the methods of attaining it. But even this difference is educational. Radical and conservative interest upon each other, modify each other, until presently they come together for united achievement. That is the American Way, and the results of it stand." -Henry Ford