Fordlandia the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city /
The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.
| Main Author: | Grandin, Greg, 1962- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Metropolitan Books,
2009.
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| Physical Description: |
xii, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Fordlandia : |b the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city / |c Greg Grandin. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Metropolitan Books, |c 2009. | |
| 300 | |a xii, 416 pages : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [373]-398) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction : Nothing is wrong with anything -- pt. 1. Many things otherwise inexplicable. -- Under an American flag -- The cow must go -- Absolute Americanisms -- That's where we sure can get gold -- Fordville -- They will all die -- Everything Jake -- When Ford comes -- pt. 2. Lord Ford. -- Two rivers -- Smoke and ash -- Prophesied subjection -- The Ford way of thinking -- What would you give for a good job? -- Let's wander out yonder -- Kill all the Americans -- pt. 3. Rubber Rouge. -- American pastoral -- Good lines, straight and true -- Mountains of the moon -- Only God can grow a tree -- Standard practices -- Bonfire of the Caterpillars -- Fallen empire of rubber -- Tomorrow land -- Epilogue : Still waiting for Henry Ford. | |
| 520 | |a The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch. | ||
| 586 | |a National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction, 2009. | ||
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