I Invented the Modern Age

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 a new technology: 170 years ago the railroad changed Americans’ conception of space and time; in our era, the microprocessor revolutionized how humans communi