Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City 1st (first) edition
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.10 (870 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B006QVX5CW |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.
Drew Whitaker said Five Stars. excellent. "More Than Ford, but Great on Ford" according to Richard J. Gibson. Being a Detroiter whose grandfather and mother who worked at the Rouge, and who worked in the Iron Foundry and on the trains beneath the Rouge, who later in life researched Ford's schools in the US, who studied with great care the relationship between the Fords and the workers, I thought I knew Ford. I did not. In this brilliant and carefully documented (read the footnotes for sure) study of not just Fordlandia, but the social relations people form in their struggle with nature in order to cre. Too much like a text book Fordlandia tells the fascinating tale of Ford's exploits in the Amazon, but it read like a text book, making it far less captivating than it could have been. I was hopinh it was going to be along the lines of Candice Millard's "River of Doubt," but it was nothing like that at all, although well researched.