and beautifully disruptive
and his deliberate attempts to thwart his biographers
stronger horses but also creating a severe decline in genetic diversity that has made horses more prone to genetic diseases
Breathtakingly simple and profoundly positive” (Chicago Tribune)
Passionate about the American cause—and endearing—Lafayette was accepted into the Continental Army when other French officers were not because of his willingness to learn (and because his wealth meant that he didn’t require a salary)
Henry Ford Sports_Gift_Guide and beautifully disruptiveMost great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made millions producing war materials. He urbanized the modern world, and then tried to drag it back into a romanticized rural past he'd helped to destroy. As the