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

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

Greg Grandin

416 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction business history informative slow-paced
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The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon.In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of the U.S. state of Delaware in the B...

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