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Fordlandia, The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
by Greg Grandin
- HISTORY
- 2010
- PAPER
- 432 PAGES
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Professor of Latin American history and journalist, Grandin captures the folly and arrogance of Ford's misbegotten rubber plantation in this gripping tale of culture clash and capitalism gone awry in the Amazon. The richest man in the world in 1927, Ford wanted not only to grow rubber but also to export America itself. Grandin captures the folly and arrogance of Ford's impossible idea of not just a rubber industry but also golf and square dances and utopia in the Brazilian Amazon.
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