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The Dodge nameplate has endured, but despite their achievements and their critical role in the early success of Henry Ford, John and Horace Dodge are usually overlooked in histories of the early automotive industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharles K. Hyde's book \u003cem\u003eThe Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e is the first scholarly study of the Dodge brothers and their company, chronicling their lives—from their childhood in Niles, Michigan, to their long years of learning the machinist's trade in Battle Creek, Port Huron, Detroit, and Windsor, Ontario—and examining their influence on automotive manufacturing and marketing trends in the early part of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHyde details the brothers' civic contributions to Detroit, their hiring of minorities and women, and their often anonymous charitable contributions to local organisations. Hyde puts the Dodge brothers' lives and accomplishments in perspective by indicating their long-term influence, which has continued long after their deaths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe most complete and accurate resource on John and Horace Dodge available, \u003cem\u003eThe Dodge Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e uses sources that have never before been examined. 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