Clyde W. Ford

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Think Black: A Memoir 17 Sep, 2019

by Clyde W. Ford

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₹ 683.77

“Powerful memoir. . .Ford’s thought-provoking narrative tells the story of African-American pride and perseverance.”

–Publisher’s Weekly (Starred)

“A masterful storyteller, Ford interweaves his personal story with the backdrop of the social movements unfolding at that time, providing a revealing insider’s view of the tech industry. . . simultaneously informative and entertaining. . . A powerful, engrossing look at race and technology.”

–Kirkus Review (Starred)

In this thought-provoking and heartbreaking memoir, an award-winning writer tells the story of his father, John Stanley Ford, the first black software engineer at IBM, revealing how racism insidiously affected his father’s view of himself and their relationship.

In 1947, Thomas J. Watson set out to find the best and brightest minds for IBM. At City College he met young accounting student John Stanley Ford and hired him to become IBM’s first black software engineer. But not all of the company’s white employees refused to accept a black colleague and did everything in their power to humiliate, subvert, and undermine Ford.

Yet Ford would not quit. Viewing the job as the opportunity of a lifetime, he comported himself with dignity and professionalism, and relied on his community and his "street smarts" to succeed. He did not know that his hiring was meant to distract from IBM’s dubious business practices, including its involvement in the Holocaust, eugenics, and apartheid.

While Ford remained at IBM, it came at great emotional cost to himself and his family, especially his son Clyde. Overlooked for promotions he deserved, the embittered Ford began blaming his fate on his skin color and the notion that darker-skinned people like him were less intelligent and less capable—beliefs that painfully divided him and Clyde, who followed him to IBM two decades later.

From his first day of work—with his wide-lapelled suit, bright red turtleneck, and huge afro—Clyde made clear he was different. Only IBM hadn’t changed. As he, too, experienced the same institutional racism, Clyde began to better understand the subtle yet daring ways his father had fought back.

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Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices 3 May, 2011

by Garth Stein , Jennie Shortridge , Erik Larson , Julia Quinn , Jamie Ford , Kevin O'Brien , Susan Wiggs , Erica Bauermeister , Carol Cassella , Mary Guterson , Elizabeth George , Deb Caletti , Kathleen Alcala , William Dietrich , Karen Finneyfrock , Stephanie Kallos , Frances McCue , Suzanne Selfors , Craig Welch , Matthew Amster-Burton , Sean Beaudoin , Robert Dugoni , Jarret Middleton , Greg Stump , David Lasky , Kit Bakke , Dave Boling , Maria Dahvana Headley , Kevin Emerson , Clyde W. Ford , Teri Hein , Stacey Levine , Peter Mountford , Nancy Rawles , Ed Skoog , Indu Sundaresan , Nancy Pearl , Kathleen Alcalá

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₹ 473.55

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.
Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence. The quirky tenants—a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by—rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad’s dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows. Provoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected.

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Boat Green: 50 Steps Boaters Can Take to Save Our Waters 1 Mar, 2009

by Clyde Ford

₹ 1,413.33

Why "green boating" saves money, increases fun, and helps the planet.

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