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| Named Person: | Henry Ford |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Greg Grandin |
| ISBN: | 9780805082364 0805082360 |
| OCLC Number: | 276930372 |
| Description: | xii, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Greg Grandin. |
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Abstract:
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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