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==In popular culture== [[File:Mr and Mrs Henry Ford in his first car.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|left|Henry and Clara Ford in his first car, the [[Ford Quadricycle]]]] * In [[Aldous Huxley]]'s ''[[Brave New World]]'' (1932), society is organized on "Fordist" lines, the years are dated A.F. or Anno Ford ("In the Year of Ford"), and the expression "My Ford" is used instead of "My Lord". The Christian cross is replaced with a capital "T" for Model-T. * [[Upton Sinclair]] created a fictional description of Ford in the 1937 novel ''[[The Flivver King]]''. * Symphonic composer [[Ferde Grofé]] composed a [[tone poem]] in Henry Ford's honor (1938). * "[[Lord, Mr. Ford]]", a 1973 song written by [[Deena Kaye Rose]] and recorded by [[Jerry Reed]] for his album of the same name, describes the impact of the automobile on modern American life and has the narrator addressing Ford in the chorus. * Ford appears as a character in several historical novels, notably [[E. L. Doctorow]]'s ''[[Ragtime (novel)|Ragtime]]'' (1975), and [[Richard Powers]]' ''[[Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance]]'' (1985).<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/7bede61a-4654-11e5-b3b2-1672f710807b |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/7bede61a-4654-11e5-b3b2-1672f710807b |archive-date=December 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |title=EL Doctorow's 'Ragtime' is still timely on tycoons |last=Hill |first=Andrew |date=August 19, 2015 |website=Financial Times |language=en-GB |access-date=October 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kušnír |first=Jaroslav |s2cid=54492211 |date=2017 |title=History, Art and Consumerism— Richard Powers' Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance |journal=CLEaR |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=11–16 |doi=10.1515/clear-2017-0002 |doi-access=free |issn=2453-7128}}</ref> * Ford, his family, and his company are the subjects of the 1987 television film ''[[Ford: The Man and the Machine]]'', based on the 1986 biography ''Ford: The Men and the Machine'' by [[Robert Lacey]] and starring [[Cliff Robertson]] in the title role. * In the 2004 alternative history novel ''[[The Plot Against America]]'', [[Philip Roth]] features Ford as [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]] in a fictional [[Charles Lindbergh]] presidential administration after Lindbergh's victory over Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. The novel draws heavily on the administration's antisemitism and [[isolationism]] as a catalyst for its plot. ** In the 2020 [[HBO]] [[The Plot Against America (miniseries)|adapted miniseries of the same name]], Ford is portrayed by actor Ed Moran. * Ford appears as a Great Builder in the 2008 strategy video game ''[[Civilization Revolution]]''.<ref>[http://www.civfanatics.com/civrev/great_people Civilization Revolution: Great People]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317031836/http://www.civfanatics.com/civrev/great_people|date=March 17, 2011}} "CivFanatics" Retrieved on September 4, 2009.</ref> * In the fictional history of the ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' video game franchise, Ford is portrayed as having been a major [[Templar]] influence on the events of the [[Great Depression]], and later [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Bertz|first=Matt|date=March 23, 2012|title=Assassin's Creed III: Evolution of the Templar Order|url=https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/03/23/the-evolution-of-the-templar-order.aspx|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104213335/https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/03/23/the-evolution-of-the-templar-order.aspx|archive-date=November 4, 2021|access-date=February 12, 2021|magazine=[[Game Informer]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Mirowski|first=Jakub|date=April 19, 2020|title=Adolf Hitler – Nazi puppet of the order. History according to Assassin's Creed|url=https://www.gamepressure.com/editorials/history-according-to-assassins-creed-conspiracy-theorists-paradis/zd28c-3|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105142527/https://www.gamepressure.com/editorials/history-according-to-assassins-creed-conspiracy-theorists-paradis/zd28c-3|archive-date=November 5, 2021|access-date=February 12, 2021|website=Game Pressure|language=en}}</ref> * Ford is featured as an ally of [[Thomas Edison]] in the [[YouTube]] series ''[[Super Science Friends]]''. * Todd Hofley portrays Ford twice in the [[CBC Television|Canadian television]] period [[Detective fiction|detective series]] [[Murdoch Mysteries]], in episode 6 of season 5 "[[List of Murdoch Mysteries episodes#Season 5 (2012)|Who Killed the Electric Carriage?]]" (April 3, 2012) and in episode 11 of season 13 "[[List of Murdoch Mysteries episodes#Season 13 (2019–2020)|Staring Blindly into the Future]]" (January 13, 2020). * In 2023, Ford was featured in an episode of the Youtube comedic series [[Epic Rap Battles of History]], rapping against [[Karl Marx]].
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