{"title":"Richard Snow","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to our collection of books by Richard Snow, a celebrated author known for his engaging narrative style and richly detailed historical accounts. Snow's works traverse the realms of Biography \u0026amp; Memoir and History \u0026amp; Military, offering readers a chance to delve deep into fascinating stories from the past century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of his acclaimed titles, \u003cem\u003eDisney's Land\u003c\/em\u003e, invites readers on a journey through the creation of Disneyland, unraveling the visionary pursuits of Walt Disney. This book is a captivating blend of biography and thematic exploration that showcases Snow's talent for bringing historical figures to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eI Invented the Modern Age\u003c\/em\u003e, Snow offers a nuanced biography of Henry Ford, charting his transformative influence on the automobile industry and how it shaped the modern world. This work vividly captures Ford's pioneering spirit and complex legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor those interested in naval history, \u003cem\u003eSailing the Graveyard Sea\u003c\/em\u003e provides an enthralling narrative of maritime warfare. This book paints a vivid picture of the perilous Atlantic battlegrounds during critical historic conflicts, reflecting Snow's meticulous research and storytelling prowess.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Snow's books are more than just historical accounts; they are immersive experiences that educate, entertain, and enlighten. Dive into this collection to explore the depth of his insight and the vivid worlds he recreates.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sailing-the-graveyard-sea-by-richard-snow-9781982185459","title":"Sailing the Graveyard Sea","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA “compelling” (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy—a little-known but once notorious event that cost three young men their lives—part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and as propulsive and dramatic as the bestselling novels of Patrick O’Brian.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war \u003ci\u003eSomers\u003c\/i\u003e dropped anchor in the New York Harbor at the end of a voyage intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this routine exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore claiming he had prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted mutineers were being held under guard, but three had already been hanged at sea: Boatswain’s Mate Samuel Cromwell, Seaman Elisha Small, and Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer, whose father was the secretary of war, John Spencer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEighteen-year-old Philip Spencer, according to his commander, had been the ringleader who encouraged the crew to seize the ship and become pirates so that they might rape and pillage their way through the northern coast of South America and the Caribbean. While the young man might have been fascinated by stories of pirates, it soon became clear the order that condemned the three men had no legal basis. And, worse, it appeared possible that no mutiny had actually occurred, and that the ship might instead have been seized by a creeping hysteria that ended in the sacrifice of three innocents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMonths of accusations and counteraccusations were followed by a highly public court-martial that put Mackenzie on trial for his life, and a storm of anti-Navy sentiment drew the attention of such leading writers of the day as Herman Melville and James Fenimore Cooper. 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But in the early twentieth century, the agent of creative destruction was the gasoline engine, as put to work by an unknown and relentlessly industrious young man named Henry Ford. Born the same year as the Battle of Gettysburg, Ford died two years after the atomic bombs fell, and his life personified the tremendous technological changes achieved in that span.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing up as a Michigan farm boy with a bone-deep loathing of farming, Ford intuitively saw the advantages of internal combustion. Resourceful and fearless, he built his first gasoline engine out of scavenged industrial scraps. It was the size of a sewing machine. From there, scene by scene, Richard Snow vividly shows Ford using his innate mechanical abilities, hard work, and radical imagination as he transformed American industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn many ways, of course, Ford’s story is well known; in many more ways, it is not. 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But then he soured, and the benevolent side of his character went into an ever-deepening eclipse, even as the America he had remade evolved beyond all imagining into a global power capable of producing on a vast scale not only cars, but airplanes, ships, machinery, and an infinity of household devices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA highly pleasurable read, filled with scenes and incidents from Ford’s life, particularly during the intense phase of his secretive competition with other early car manufacturers, \u003ci\u003eI Invented the Modern Age\u003c\/i\u003e shows Richard Snow at the height of his powers as a popular historian and reclaims from history Henry Ford, the remarkable man who, indeed, invented the modern world as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46850393866476,"sku":"9781451645583","price":31.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23279673482704.jpg?v=1759089254"},{"product_id":"disneys-land-by-richard-snow-9781501190810","title":"Disney's Land","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA propulsive and \u003cem\u003eentertaining\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a world still powered by steam and fire for a day or a week or (if the visitor is slightly mad) forever.” Despite his wealth and fame, exactly no one wanted Disney to build such a park. Not his brother Roy, who ran the company’s finances; not the bankers; and not his wife, Lillian. Amusement parks at that time, such as Coney Island, were a generally despised business, sagging and sordid remnants of bygone days. Disney was told that he would only be heading toward financial ruin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Walt persevered, initially financing the park against his own life insurance policy and later with sponsorship from ABC and the sale of thousands and thousands of Davy Crockett coonskin caps. Disney assembled a talented team of engineers, architects, artists, animators, landscapers, and even a retired admiral to transform his ideas into a soaring yet soothing wonderland of a park. The catch was that they had only a year and a day in which to build it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened its gates…and the first day was a disaster. Disney was nearly suicidal with grief that he had failed on a grand scale. 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