Carefully crafted from thousands of Ford archives, written interviews, and first-hand accounts told by people who new the man, Edsel: The Story of Henry Ford's Forgotten Son, brings into focus the remarkable life of Edsel Ford. The book chronicle's Edsel's life from his early days of growing up in and around his father's company, through the controversy of his World War I draft notice and eventual exemption, the design change from the Model T to the Model A, and the creation of the Ford Foundation. 27 chapters in all help to shed light on the life of a man who preferred to spend most of his life out of the limelight.

From the Introduction
...in all the books written about the Ford Motor Company and the Ford family, precious little has been written about Edsel Ford. He was, after all, the son of Henry Ford, and more importantly, president of the Ford Motor company for a quarter of a century. Who was this man? What was he like? And why has he been ignored?

About the Author
Henry Dominquez has studied Ford Motor Company history for over a quarter of a century, reliving much of it through the many old Fords that he has owned over the years. He is author of The Ford Agency, which chronicled the development of Ford's dealership network, and the SAE book Edsel Ford & E.T. Gregorie (R-245), which is the first in-depth study of how the classic Fords of the 1930s and 1940s were designed.