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;...

The peasants do the real work -- The Rodríguezes of Gundiás -- The Barreiroses of Sabadelle -- "¡Guagua, guagua!" -- Give to him who asks -- A clear, bright town -- The Spanish catastrophe -- People lived for politics -- There came forth from the soil armed men -- Red beret -- This cruel...