Richard Snow

Richard Snow was born in New York City and he graduated with a B.A. from Columbia College in 1970. He 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, among them two novels and a volume of poetry. Snow has served as a consultant for historical motion pictures—among them Glory—and has written for documentaries, including the Burns brothers’ Civil War, and Ric Burns’s award-winning PBS film Coney Island. His most recent book is A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II.

The Great and Sad Henry Ford

Modern Man

<p>He was a magnificent pioneer who made cars affordable and paid his workers well. But he also became an unsettling, terrible person. Richard Snow, the author of the new biography <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Invented-Modern-Age-Rise-Henry/dp/1451645570">I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford</a></i>, on why the auto mogul spiraled so far down.</p>

Richard Snow | Published May 14, 2013