I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford and the Most Important Car Ever Made
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (941 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00CTPBNQO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 246 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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But in the early 20th century the agent of creative destruction was the gasoline engine, as put to work by an unknown and relentlessly industrious young man named Henry Ford. Our country changed in a mere decade, and Ford became a national hero. Growing up as a Michigan farm boy with a bone-deep loathing of farming, Ford intuitively saw the advantages of internal combustion. A highly pleasurable listen, filled with scenes and incidents from Ford's life, particularly during the intense phase of his secretive competition with other early car manufacturers, I Invented the Modern Age shows Richard Snow at the height of his powers as a popular historian and reclaims from history Henry Ford, the remarkable man who, indeed, invented the modern world as we know it.. Resourceful and fearless, he built his first gasoline engine out of scavenged industrial scraps. A little more than a decade later, it took exactly one minute. Richard Snow masterfully weaves together a fascinating narrative of Ford's rise to fame through his greatest invention, the Model T. In making his car so quickly and so cheaply that his own workers could easily afford it, Ford created the cycle of consumerism that we still inhabit. When Ford first unveiled this car, it took 12 and a half hours to build one. But then he soured, and the benevolent side of his character went into an ever-deepening eclipse, even as the America he had remade evolved beyond all imagining into a global p
This is far more than a book about a man and a car Carol Peckham This wonderful book pulls Henry Ford into the present by presenting us with his deep revealing shadow. Richard Snow has chosen to create a picture of Ford that starts in his early life and leads ineluctably to the development of the Model T, which Snow describes convincingly as having invented the modern age. This isn't a new idea of course but what this book does is not only evoke a vivid picture of genius at its peak but it provides the essence of what we gained and lost through Ford's bizarre twists of characte. timothy sho donahue said Enjoyable Read. If you like history,the automobile and manufacturing you will enjoy this book.It is a great history about the Path Henry took to invent a car, build it and get it into mass production.He made mistakes along the way and also took some big risks on big ideas. The part I found most interesting is that his son was actually better qualified to run the business but never allowed to spread his wings. Henry was not the best father and in many respects, not a good man to work for if you had your own ideas.. Interesting Perspective on a Complicated Man Quite a good read -- a good somewhat anecdotal history of the early days of Ford failures and successes. Tells of Ford's partners and investors traditionally not well known. For instance, there is a James Couzens' expressway in Detroit. I never knew he was Ford's bookkeeper, operations manager and general tight fisted financial guy in the early days. Ford threw overboard many of the executives who helped him build the company. Interesting how the Dodge brothers were instrumental in manufacturing chassis and parts