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It is the year 1915. Neutral America is debating the proper response to the war in Europe. Increasingly involved in this debate is Henry Ford: inventor, industrialist, and billionaire. He is against war - it is bad for business. Ford is barely educated but knows how to make a headline, and when he declares that he will give up all he possesses to stop the build-up to war, the papers get to work. Into his orbit comes the bombastic peace-activist Rosika Schwimmer, who persuades him that a Peace Ship filled with the great and the good should sail to Europe, set up a mediation commission, and 'get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas'. With Ford's money the idea quickly becomes a reality and everyone is in on the act. Fortunes are spent in his name. Chartering the Oscar and leaving in a storm of publicity, but with most credible invitees turning him down, Ford finds himself in the mid-Atlantic, menaced by invisible U-boats, on a ship full of eccentrics, idealists, parasites, and hard-drinking journalists on the story of their lives. Back home, he is ridiculed as the expedition descends into acrimonious farce. Told in the many voices of those around Ford - his wife, his chauffeur, the activists, politicians, and journalists aboard his Ship of Fools - "King Henry" is a captivating and virtuosic novel based on one of the most extraordinary episodes of the early twentieth century. It is a strikingly contemporary story of a well-intentioned king with a court that has run mad who suffers a spectacular fall from grace.
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Review:
"A glorious roar of literary success"
-- Scotland on Sunday
"Written with wit and vigour, this is a hugely enjoyable read ...
Galbraith has clearly been meticulous in his research, referencing
contemporary cartoons and headlines. It has paid off: a more engaging and
surprising historical novel is unlikely to be published this year" -- Daily Mail
"Written with wit and vigour...hugely enjoyable read...a more engaging and surprising historical novel is unlikely to be published this year" -- Daily Mail, April 14, 2007
"a fascinating premise for a novel.... the feel of the era is
convincing. So too, is the depiction of a nation on the cusp of a momentous
decision"
-- The Herald
'This is a wet Sunday book. It's a baggy old Sofa kind of novel, to let yourself sink into.' -- Ronald Frame, Scottish Review of Books
'a fabulous satire with compelling relevance for our current
international crises.'
-- Saga
From the Publisher:
-- Scotland on Sunday
"Written with wit and vigour, this is a hugely enjoyable read ...
Galbraith has clearly been meticulous in his research, referencing
contemporary cartoons and headlines. It has paid off: a more engaging and
surprising historical novel is unlikely to be published this year" -- Daily Mail
"Written with wit and vigour...hugely enjoyable read...a more engaging and surprising historical novel is unlikely to be published this year" -- Daily Mail, April 14, 2007
"a fascinating premise for a novel.... the feel of the era is
convincing. So too, is the depiction of a nation on the cusp of a momentous
decision"
-- The Herald
'This is a wet Sunday book. It's a baggy old Sofa kind of novel, to let yourself sink into.' -- Ronald Frame, Scottish Review of Books
'a fabulous satire with compelling relevance for our current
international crises.'
-- Saga
A superb novel based on the true story of Henry Ford's amazing but doomed attempt to stop the First World War.
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- PublisherISIS Large Print Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0753179075
- ISBN 13 9780753179079
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages504
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