Examines the eight-year legal fight to overturn the Selden automobile patent in the early days of the American auto industry.
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.
Foreword
p. ix
Preface
p. xiii
Introduction
p. xv
Prologue: Roots of a Legend
p. 3
Beginnings
p. 5
The Long Vigil
p. 27
Mr. Whitney Comes to Hartford
p. 49
The Opening Battle
p. 71
David and Goliath
p. 95
A Mountain of Evidence
p. 123
The Tournament of Motors
p. 145
Trade War
p. 169
Argument and Decision
p. 197
Path of Progress
p. 233
Notes
p. 255
Bibliography
p. 275
Index
p. 291
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