I Invented the Modern Age, The Rise Of Henry Ford by Richard Snow

I Invented The Modern Age, The Rise of Henry Ford by Richard Snow (2014)
Condition. Excellent Used Condition. The front cover has some slight bends on the corners from sitting on a shelf. There is also a faint line down the spine of the book from opening and closing.
ISBN: 9781451645583

From the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who "writes with verve and a keen eye" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a fresh and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T-the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America.

EVERY CENTURY OR SO, our republic has been remade by new technology. In the early twentieth century the agent of creative destruction was the gasoline engine, as put to work by an unknown, relentlessly industrious, radically imaginative young man named Henry Ford.

Growing up as a Michigan farm boy with a bone-deep loathing of farming, Ford intuitively saw the advantages of internal combustion. He built his first gasoline engine out of scavenged industrial scraps. It was the size of a sewing machine. From there, Richard Snow masterfully weaves the fascinating narrative of Ford's rise to fame through his greatest invention, the Model T, and his transformation of American industry.

When Ford first unveiled this car, it took twelve and a half hours to build one. A little more than a decade later, it took exactly one minute. 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. Our country changed in a mere decade, and Ford became a national hero. 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 power. A highly pleasurable read, I Invented the Modern Age shows Richard Snow at the height of his talents as a popular historian.

 (Book Description Taken Directly From Back Cover)