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I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 384 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x152x33 mm, weight: 544 g, 8 pg insert
  • Išleidimo metai: 14-May-2013
  • Leidėjas: Scribner
  • ISBN-10: 1451645570
  • ISBN-13: 9781451645576
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 384 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x152x33 mm, weight: 544 g, 8 pg insert
  • Išleidimo metai: 14-May-2013
  • Leidėjas: Scribner
  • ISBN-10: 1451645570
  • ISBN-13: 9781451645576
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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 ahighly pleasurable read, and shows us the remarkable man who invented the modern age"--

A lively account of Henry Ford's invention of the Model-T places his innovations against a backdrop of a steam-powered world and offers insight into his innate mechanical talents and pioneering work in internal combustion, describing his indelible impact on American culture and the perplexing subsequent changes in his personality.

An account of Henry Ford's invention of the Model-T offers insight into his mechanical talents and pioneering work in internal combustion, describing his impact on American culture and the perplexing subsequent changes in his personality.

A lively account of Henry Ford's invention of the Model-T places his innovations against a backdrop of a steam-powered world and offers insight into his innate mechanical talents and pioneering work in internal combustion, describing his indelible impact on American culture and the perplexing subsequent changes in his personality.

Recenzijos

"Richard Snow presents a biography of a brilliant, difficult and strange man, a technological thriller about the most important machine he made, and a social history of the country it transformed. You live in the world Henry Ford made; here is how it happened. I Invented the Modern Age is clear, amusing, stern and poignant." -- Richard Brookhiser * author of James Madison * I Invented the Modern Ageis the amazing story of an amazing man, told with wit, insight, style, andzest. Richard Snow makes the invention of the automobile intelligible andfascinating even to car ignoramuses such as myself. His story of Ford theman is simply riveting. This is history as it should always be told. -- Kevin Baker * Strivers Row * Highly readable. * Publishers Weekly * Stylistically, Snow mimics the marvelously folksy, proteantemperament of his subject, dwelling on Fords early mechanical inventionsrather than his latter problematic prickliness, and everywhere portraying acompelling character. * Kirkus *

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Winner of Michigan Notable Books 2014.
Chapter 1 A Homecoming
Saving the farm, then saving the entire past; between the steam engine and the Apple; "nobody knew anything about cars"; Fordism
1(10)
Chapter 2 "My Toys Were All Tools"
The boy who hated farming; McGuffey's "new green world"; steam and clockwork; a house without a mainspring; "the biggest event in those early years"; into Detroit
11(14)
Chapter 3 Clara
"He's a thinking, serious person"; winning a dead man's job; electricity; a baby and a seventh home; the Christmas Eve engine
25(14)
Chapter 4 Working from the Ground Up
Making a car in a world without any; "a colorless, limpid, innocent-appearing liquid"; the Bagley Avenue woodshed; America's first car race; Henry Ford's first car
39(22)
Chapter 5 What Edison Said
Ford's first sale; "There's a young fellow who has made a gas car"; Ford's first company; a winter drive with "civilization's latest lisp"; dissolution: "Henry wasn't ready"
61(20)
Chapter 6 "Glory and Dust"
"We had to race"; Smiling Billy's World's Championship Sweepstakes; Ford vs. Winton: "A thin man can run faster than a fat one"; the Henry Ford Company; "The materialization of a nightmare"
81(20)
Chapter 7 The Seven-Million-Dollar Letter
Malcomson's gamble; from a toy printing press; the Dodge brothers; the Ford Motor Company; "This business cannot last"; the (first) Model A; "Boss Of The Road"
101(20)
Chapter 8 Ford Finds His Greatest Asset
"Who in hell are you?"; Couzens bosses the boss; the cars get shipped; the importance of dealers; an earthquake proves the Model A; parasites; who was Malcomson?
121(20)
Chapter 9 Inventing the Universal Car
Who wanted it?; Sorensen's locked room; steering wheel on the left---forever; new experts, new engine, new steel, new car; "Without doubt the greatest creation in automobiles ever placed before a people"
141(12)
Chapter 10 The Man Who Owned Every Car in America
Selden files a patent on all gas-powered automobiles and sues their makers; the court finds for him; most carmakers give in; Ford won't pay "graft money"; a second trial; "One of the greatest things Mr. Ford did..."
153(18)
Chapter 11 The Model T Takes Over
New York to Seattle on thin ice; learning to drive the Model T; birth of a dealer; the farmer and the car; caring for your Model T; the perils of starting it; "Funny Stories About the Ford"; five thousand accessories; remaking the nation in a decade: "I'll go without food before I'll go without my car"
171(26)
Chapter 12 Terrible Efficiency
The Crystal Palace; taking the work to the worker; speeding up; the twentieth century's only industrial revolution; the workers hate it
197(14)
Chapter 13 The Five-Dollar Day
Couzens and his conscience; "It's a good round number"; Ford bids against himself; "every worker a potential customer"; Ford at his zenith
211(20)
Chapter 14 Simple Purposes
Telling workers how to live; ugly enough to be a minister; war; Ford on the American soldier: "Lazy, crazy, or just out of a job"; Couzens quits; "Great War To End Christmas Day: Ford To Stop IT"; from "peace angel to Vulcan"
231(22)
Chapter 15 The Expert
The Rouge rises; the Dodge brothers sue; "we don't seem to be able to keep the profits down"; sandbagging the shareholders; probing Ford's ignorance in court: "Did you ever hear of Benedict Arnold?"
253(16)
Chapter 16 The International Jew
The problems of civilization traced to their source; the Dearborn Independent; Liebold; "Let's Have Some Sensationalism"; "Jewish Degradation of American Baseball"; two U.S. presidents ask Ford to stop his campaign; he carries it on for ninety-one issues of the Independent; Ford apologizes, saying he had no idea what was in his newspaper
269(14)
Chapter 17 The End of the Line
Edsel; his powerless power in the company; Evangeline Dahlinger and her houses and horses; the "executive scrap heap"; how to join it: suggest changing the Model T; sales dwindle; Edsel fights; the last Model T; what the car had done
283(40)
Epilogue
The Model A; "The Rouge is no fun anymore"; buying every steam engine; "Maybe I pushed the boy too hard"; the reluctant armorer of Democracy; to bed by candlelight
323(14)
A Note on Sources, and Acknowledgments 337(4)
Bibliography 341(6)
Index 347
Richard Snow worked at American Heritage magazine for nearly four decades and was its editor-in-chief for seventeen years. He is the author of several books, has served as a consultant for historical motion pictures-among them Glory-and has written for documentaries, including the Burns brothers' Civil War.