Frank Ernest Hill (1888–1969)
Auteur van Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company
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- Geboortedatum
- 1888-08-29
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1969-11-02
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- male
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- San Jose, California
- Opleiding
- Stanford University
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- Frank Ernest Hill, son of photographer Andrew Putnam Hill (1853- 1922), born 29 August 1888 in San Jose, California, was a newspaperman, college professor, aviator, poet, and author. He received his A.B. (1911) and A.M. (1914) from Stanford University in English literature. His began his career as a poet, but later turned to expository prose and toward the end of his life wrote industrial history. He died 2 November 1969.
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The Kid Who Batted 1.000 door Bob Allison & Frank Ernest Hill
JBurlinson, you must not have finished the book. In his final game, the kid, facing a radical defensive shift, swings away and knocks an extra-base hit to the outfield that wins the playoffs. Your perspective might be altered if you knew that the book's target demo was 10-year-old boys.
Let's see here. The kid in the title hits the ball a ton -- way, way out there. But the ball always goes foul. A scout recruits him for a pro team where he proceeds to demoralize every pitcher he faces because he always hits their pitches a ton -- way, way out there, but always foul. Not only does he demoralize them, he also wears out their arms. I only have two questions: (1) If he never gets a hit or a strikeout, he can't hit 1.000 because he never has an official at bat. (2) Why did it take two authors to write this book? The only answer I can come up with for question # 2 is that the first author got sick of the story and had to be relieved.… (meer)
1791 Ford: The Times, the Man the Company, by Allan Nevins with the collaboration of Frank Ernest Hill (read 20 Aug 1983) This tells the story of Henry Ford and his company up to 1916. I found the early part really fascinating, giving an account of Ford's early life and the beginning of the automotive industry. The Selden patent case, if I ever heard of it, I had forgotten about, and I found the chapters on it in this book really good. The book would gain by more perspective--it was published in 1954, only 7 years after Ford's death--but otherwise it was very interesting. I believe I'll go on to read Volume II, even though it is probably not going to be as interesting as this volume.… (meer)
1792 Ford: Expansion and Challenge 1915-1933, by Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill (read 27 Aug 1983) This volume tells the bizarre story of the Peace Ship, the war efforts of the Company, the expansion after the war, the odd venture into journalism, the end of the Model T and the building of the Model A--and much more. Ford was an odd person--a genius with blind spots, and this book I think does a good job of telling how he was.
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