page_title: Henry Ford
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Ford / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: From The Truth About Henry Ford by Sarah T. Bushnell: Mr. and Mrs. Ford in his first car, which he sold but afterwards bought back. It is now his most prized posession. Notice the old-fashioned bicycle wheels, and the bell on dash. Note:This appears to be the Ford Quadricycle
context_page_description: Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-class Americans could afford, he converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into an accessible conveyance that profoundly impacted the landscape of the 20th century.
  His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As the Ford Motor Company owner, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put dealerships throughout North America and major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation and arranged for his family to permanently control it.
context_section_description: 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". The Christian cross is replaced with a capital "T" for Model-T.
  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 appears 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 1987 film starring Cliff Robertson and Michael Ironside, based on the 1986 biography Ford: The Man and the Machine by Robert Lacey.
  In the 2005 alternative history novel The Plot Against America, Philip Roth features Ford as Secretary of the Interior in a fictional Charles Lindbergh presidential administration.
  Ford appears as a Great Builder in the 2008 strategy video game Civilization Revolution.
  In the fictional history of the Assassin's Creed video game franchise, Ford is portrayed as having been a major Templar influence on the events of the Great Depression, and later World War II.
caption: Henry and Clara Ford in his first car, the Ford Quadricycle
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