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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
5.0
Fascinating review of a little-known expansion in American economic 20th century history - Henry Ford's attempt to build a utopian-like city in the Amazon jungle in the 1930s and efforts to manufacture rubber for his vast automobile industry. Book does a great job of profiling the ecentricities of Ford along with the auto industry and contrasting how American industrial successes did not transfer well down into South America.