Henry Ford - Popular Culture

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  • In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), society is organized on 'Fordist' lines, the years are dated A.F. or Anno Ford ('In the Year of our Ford'), and the expression 'My Ford' is used instead of 'My Lord.'
  • Upton Sinclair created a fictional description of Ford in the 1937 novel The Flivver King.
  • Symphonic composer Ferde Grofe composed a tone poem in Henry Ford's honor (1938).
  • Ford is treated as a character in several historical novels, notably E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime (1975), and Richard Powers' novel Three Farmers on the Way to a Dance (1985).
  • Ford, his family, and his company were the subjects of a 1986 biography by Robert Lacey entitled Ford: The Men and the Machine. The book was adapted in 1987 into a film starring Cliff Robertson and Michael Ironside.
  • In the 2005 alternative history novel The Plot Against America, Philip Roth features Ford as Secretary of Interior in a fictional Charles Lindbergh presidential administration.
  • The British author Douglas Galbraith uses the event of the Ford Peace Ship as the center of his novel King Henry (2007).
  • Ford appears as a Great Builder in the 2008 strategy video game Civilization Revolution.

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