WATTENBERG: Henry Ford did not invent the car. I mean, there were a lot of people working in Europe and here at trying to create personal transportation, which is when you think about it one of ...

The rhetoric was not unusual for its content, as much as its scope. As one of the most famous men in America, Henry Ford legitimized ideas that otherwise may have been given little authority.

New York, 23 September 1922 – The son of an Irish famine emigrant to the United States is now ‘far and away’ the world’s richest man. Henry Ford, whose father left Ballinascarthy in Co ...