{"id":1566,"date":"2014-03-04T18:22:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T00:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2017-07-13T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T19:44:09","slug":"i-invented-the-modern-age-the-rise-of-henry-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1566","title":{"rendered":"I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Richard Snow, 2013, Scribner, New York<\/p>\n<p>I thought the subject matter of this book was absolutely fascinating.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 How Henry Ford invented the Model T and then made it available to the masses is a great story, no matter how many times it is told.\u00c2\u00a0 He then built a company that mass-produced the automobile in incredible quantities.<\/p>\n<p>The book goes on to illustrate Ford&#8217;s eccentricities that almost led to the demise of the company.\u00c2\u00a0 It is unfortunate that a man of such genius had such\u00c2\u00a0horrible character flaws and quirks.\u00c2\u00a0I almost shuddered to think how he would have gotten along in the current &#8220;modern age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book held my attention but seemed a bit choppy at times.\u00c2\u00a0 I somehow didn&#8217;t get\u00c2\u00a0the transitions from one subject or individual to another in the book.\u00c2\u00a0 I did feel that\u00c2\u00a0the book was worthwhile to read, however.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Richard Snow, 2013, Scribner, New York I thought the subject matter of this book was absolutely fascinating.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 How Henry Ford invented the Model T and then made it available to the masses is a great story, no matter how <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1566\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,33,16,32],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-biography","tag-business","tag-non-fiction","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}