Modern Age: The Rise Of Henry Ford

In I Invented The Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford, Richard Snow puts together a masterpiece narrative of Ford’s rise to fame through his greatest invention. The book covers the life of Henry Ford from birth, the same year as the battle of Gettysburg, Ford died two years after the atomic bombs fell. The book however does not start with his birth but staving his birth place and then on to saving history. One very interesting things Snow writes about this period is, “Once again his agents went out, this time in their hundreds. They were, said the boss, to bring back “a complete series of every article ever used or made in America from the days of the first settlers down to the present.” Written in a general order, Snow’s writing …show more content…
The first was Mr. Ford’s love of history. Henry Ford did not want to study history but wanted to touch it and walk inside of the building. Mr. Ford built a town Named Greenfield Village and bought places of historical significance and put them on his property. He had over one hundred builds. Snow writes, “So it was with the past. Ford wanted to be able to handle it, to walk inside it and look around. He bought the Illinois courthouse and moved it to Dearborn, to the town he had named Greenfield Village, after his wife’s birthplace. He bought the Wright brother’s cycle shop, and moved it there too-and, to keep it company, the carpentry Queen Anne house the brothers grew up in.” The second piece of writing was the deal of how Ford Motor Company got started. Snow writes, “On August 20, 1902, the two men went to the office of Malcomson’s lawyer, John W. Anderson and Horace H. Rackham, and signed a partnership agreement. Ford would contribute his tools, plans, and experience, and henceforth concentrate on the building of a prototype of the new car. Malcomson would give him five hundred dollars right away to get things started, and pay what was needed as the project went forward.” To think this agreement is what started Ford is