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.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Metropolitan Books,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : nothing is wrong with anything
- 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
- 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
- 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.
