Charles E. Sorensen's "My Forty Years with Ford"

A review of Charles E. Sorensen's book, "My Forty Years with Ford."

​This is the sixth book I have read concerning Henry Ford: (1) My Life and Work, (2) Today and Tomorrow, (3) Moving Forward, (4) 365 Henry Ford Sayings, and (5) The Last Billionaire. The first three were written in conjunction with Samuel Crowther—who is mentioned in this latest book.

​In my opinion, The Last Billionaire by William Richards is the best of the works at presenting a balanced perspective on Mr. Ford. It presents him as a complete man within a changing society. It balances his eccentricities as both strengths and weaknesses [Reviews of Crowther’s books are here] and [The review of "The Last Billionaire" is here].

​In any prioritized list of books, this work of "Cast-Iron Charlie's" should be added as last. If Sorensen knew Henry Ford “as well as any man alive or dead” as he claims, he left out the compassionate side of his chief executive and, maybe, in so doing reveals a weakness in himself. Sorensen either did not know or appreciate, or did not write any of the human-interest stories of Mr. Ford that come across in the other biographies.

I don't think he knew Henry Ford as well as he thought he did.

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