Henry Ford is among the strangest—and in some ways the least appealing—of great men. He hated cows, and declared in absolute seriousness “The cow must go!” He believed the Jews had invented jazz as part of a race-wide campaign to corrupt, and then dominate, America. In 1915 he chartered an ocean liner, filled it with intellectuals and journalists, and set sail for Europe ablaze with a messianic intention. In the words of The New York Times’s headline, “GREAT WAR TO END CHRISTMAS DAY. FORD TO STOP IT.” He famously said history was bunk, and then spent the latter part of his life building on some empty acreage in Dearborn, Michigan, a vast museum devoted to American history.
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