The Man Who Nearly Destroyed Ford

On September twenty-first, 1945, in a basement office beneath the Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, Harry Bennett reached into his desk drawer for a forty-five caliber pistol. For nearly thirty years he'd been Henry Ford's closest companion, his bodyguard, his spy, and by then the most feared man inside Ford Motor Company. But the executive standing across that desk had come to fire him, and he was carrying a gun too. So how did a Navy boxer end up close enough to control Ford, and who really let him get there?