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The Flivver King is certainly not Sinclair's best novel, but its topic, Hitler's favorite American, publisher of The Protocals of the Elders of Zion, Henry Ford, is certainly an important figure. What Sinclair does is tell Ford's story in juxtaposition with that of one of his workers, contrasting the America of the ruling class to that of working class during the Ford era.
The Flivver King stands among the finest of modern American historical novels. It is history as it ought to be written—from the bottom up and the top down, with monumental sensitivity to the compromise and conflict between the two extremes. Its two stories—those of Henry Ford and Ford-worker Abner Shutt, unfold side by side, indeed ...
The Flivver King Summary. It’s 1892 in Detroit, Michigan, and Henry Ford has finally completed the first model of his “horseless carriage,” which runs on a gasoline powered engine. Though many of the neighbors are skeptical that Ford’s invention will amount to anything, Ford insists that he’s going to revolutionize transportation for ...
The Flivver King: A Story Of Ford-America. Upton Sinclair. Published by Charles H Kerr January 1984, 1984. ISBN 10: 0882860542 ISBN 13: 9780882860541.
The story is told from two conflicting views: That of Henry Ford and one of his workers. As we begin the 21st Century it is as important as ever for the American working and middle class to understand the roots of the American Labor Movement, especially the UAW.
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They are, in the end, one story: the saga of class and culture in 'Ford-America'. Workers and bosses, flappers and Klansmen, war and depression, Prohibition outlaws and high-society parties, unions and anti-union gun thugs - few aspects of American life in the first four decades of the last century are missing from this small masterpiece.
