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. |
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. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-398) and index. |
LCCN | 2008049642 |
ISBN | 9780805082364 |
ISBN | 0805082360 |