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Item Details
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I INVENTED THE MODERN AGE
THE RISE OF HENRY FORD |
| By: |
Richard Snow |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£19.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1451645570 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781451645576 |
| Publisher: |
SIMON & SCHUSTER |
| Pub. date: |
14 May, 2013 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
A fresh, meticulous, and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T-the machine that defined the dawning age in America. |
| Synopsis: |
Every century or so, our republic has been changed by a new technology: 170 years ago it was the railroad; today it's the microprocessor. But in the early twentieth century it was the gasoline-combustion engine, built by a young, unknown, industrious man named Henry Ford. Born into a steam-powered world, the young farm boy saw the advantages of internal combustion; using his innate mechanical abilities, hard work, and imagination he transformed the US's industry and went on to become an American icon. In many ways, his story is well known; in just as many other ways, it is not. Richard Snow 'writes with verve and a keen eye' (New York Times Book Review) to weave together a fascinating narrative of Ford's rise to fame-as well as his creative personality and spirit-through his greatest invention, the Model T. The car transformed our nation in a decade, and made Ford a national hero. But then Ford soured, and the benevolent side of his character went into an ever-deepening eclipse, even as the cultural change he initiated remade America. |
| Illustrations: |
8 pg insert |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Scribner |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Michigan Notable Books 2014 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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