Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
By Greg Grandin
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Fordlandia by National Book Award finalist Greg Grandin tells the enthralling tale of Henry Ford's failed attempts to transform a Connecticut-sized chunk of Brazilian rainforest into a homespun slice of American utopia. "Fordlandia is . a genuinely readable history recounted with a novelist's sense of pace and an eye for character. It is a significant contribution [that is] grossly enjoyable."-Los Angeles Times
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Finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History
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Author Bio: Greg Grandin
Greg Grandin is the author of The End of the Myth, which won the Pulitzer Prize; The Empire of Necessity, which won both the Bancroft and Beveridge prizes in American history; Fordlandia, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and a number of other widely acclaimed books. He is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.
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| Available Formats : | CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Runtime: | 15.45 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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