Every century or so, our republic has been redesigned by a new technology that changes the way we think: 170 years ago it was the railroad, for us it's the microprocessor, and in between them came Henry Ford's Model T. Ford was born the year of Gettysburg and died two years after the atomic bombs fell, personifying the tremendous technological changes in that span. Arriving in a steam-powered world, Ford saw the advantages of internal combustion and through the cost and time it took to build a car plummeted so that its own workers could easily afford one, thus creating the cycle of consumerism and mass production that we still experience to this day. Popular historian Richard Snow's book is a fresh, meticulous and entertaining account of Henry Ford, the Model T, and the remaking of American industry in the early 20th century.
"I Invented The Modern Age: The Rise Of Henry Ford"
