Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City Greg Grandin
Publisher: Picador

I started reading this book yesterday and it looks interesting, but it is going slowly cause there is no audiobook version (why is there no audiobook version?) and not many pictures. River Road Entertainment has acquired the rights to Pulitzer Prize finalist Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise And Fall Of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City. Ford didn't check to see if the plantation was suitable for growing rubber. In Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, published in 2009, Grandin focuses on the fascinating and hubristic adventure Ford sets out on in the Brazilian Amazon. €The Southern Command has more range to maneuver than the State Department,” added Grandin, whose most recent book was Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Paperback). ISBN: 0312429622, 9780312429621. From Fordlandia to Fiction: few and far between Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin. Of “Who Can Stop the Drums?: Urban Social Movements in Chavez's Venezuela.” Greg Grandin, professor of history at New York University and author of “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City. Greg Grandin is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including most recently Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan 2009). Greg Grandin, a professor of history at New York University, is the author, most recently, of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Paperback) By Greg Grandin. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City Greg Grandin ebook. During its best years, Fordlandia's three million rubber trees produced 750 tons of latex; but every year the Ford Motor Co. Henry Ford is famous for the invention of the production line, for creating a motoring revolution that transformed America, and for saying “history is bunk” and “you can have any colour as long as it's black”. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books, 2009), 432 pp., $27.50 paperback. This book is a tale of Henry Ford's attempt to build himself his own bit of Americana in the Amazon jungle, mainly to enable his factories in North America to have a steady and cheap source of rubber for his cars. He is the author of a number of prize-winning books, most recently “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City” (Metropolitan 2009). New York University mentor Greg Grandin ably assembles the details of Ford's grandiose failure in Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books). Entitled Fordlandia, it will largely be based off of the book, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Gandin.