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This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

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Our next story is about the man whose legacy sits in your garage.

Our storyteller is Richard Snow.

Snow worked at American Heritage Magazine for nearly four decades

and was its editor-in-chief for 17 years.

He's the author of I Invented the Modern Age,

The Rise of Henry Ford.

Let's take a listen.

Henry Ford is among the strangest and in some ways

the least appealing of great men.

He spent a great deal of the latter part of his life,

a building on some empty acreage in Dearborn, Michigan, a vast museum devoted to American history.

Now, it's an endlessly fascinating place. Ford collected on the grandest possible scale. When he revered Thomas Edison all

his life, I don't think he admired any living person more. And he brought Edison's laboratory

up from Menlo Park, New Jersey, along with the rooming house that Edison's assistants had lived in, and seven carloads of New Jersey dirt, so the buildings could literally sit on their native soil.

And when he went to get the Wright Brothers cycle shop. He also brought the pretty little Queen Anne house

the brothers had grown up in,

and it was a wooden building, stood on stone foundation.

He had the mortar knocked out between the stones and regrounds,

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