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Indlæser... I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Fordaf Richard Snow
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"From an acclaimed popular historian comes 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. 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 our nation'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 weaves 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. Snow, who "writes with verve and a keen eye" (The New York Times Book Review) has written a highly pleasurable read, and shows us the remarkable man who invented the modern age"-- No library descriptions found. |
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364 pages
★★★ ½
I think most everyone knows something about Henry Ford. Before reading this book I could tell you that he was the main person to come up with an assembly line in its modern sense, he raised the minimum wage and lowered the hours – one of the first to do so, and of course he came up with the Ford Model T – far from being the first car but definitely pushing a path where no car had gone at the time, and the whole anti-Semite thing. But there was much more to the man behind the car company and the author does a great job of shining light on Henry Ford.
This was a really interesting biography on a man I honestly didn’t know much about. I was amazed with how much paths this man paved in his time and I wonder where we would be even know without the genius of Ford and his team. The guy was far from perfect – he could be a jerk, he was an anti-Semite, he bullied his own son, and he had a habit of making all ideas from his team out to be his own. The author did his research and he was fair in his perception of Henry Ford. The book goes into detail on the early life of Ford and through his most successful car, the Model T, and then sort of rushes past the rest. This is a good one to read if you have any interest in the man or in cars (in this case I have little interest in cars but I am fascinated by the history of it all). It’s a smooth, attention-grabbing read in my opinion.
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