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.
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"
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