About the Author

William Greenleaf was professor of history at the University of New Hampshire until his death in 1975. From 1952 to 1955, he was a research associate of the Ford Motor Company History Project sponsored by Columbia University and worked with Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill on their monumental history of the Ford Motor Company, Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company. Greenleaf is also the author of several other books of industrial and business history.

Reviews

Fortunately, Wayne State University Press has now stepped in and reissued Greenleaf's book as an inexpensive paperback (it has done the same for other unobtainable works, including Charles Sorensen's My Forty Years with Ford). Accessible, intelligent, and rich in detail-if occasionally unabashed in its praise for Mr. Ford-Monopoly on Wheels remains the definitive text on the Selden suit. Only now, you won't have to eat instant noodles for a year to afford a copy.--David N. Lucsko "Michigan Historical Review"

Kudos to Wayne State University Press for reprinting William Greenleaf's definitive book on the Selden patent suit, which a century ago liberated the auto industry and became a foundation stone upon which Henry Ford's folk heroism was built. Ford later said (and James Couzens, the company's secretary, and Hawkins agreed) that no one factor publicized the company and its products as effectively as the Selden suit."--David L. Lewis "from the Introduction"

No piece of patent litigation has greater suspense or more histrionic elements. At first the odds seemed so heavily against Ford that we follow the successive steps anxiously. Mr. Greenleaf, thorough in research, vigorous in style, has given us the definitive treatment of a significant and previously cloudy episode."--Allan Nevins "from the Foreword"