Based on original research from never-before-consulted records and archives, and research visits to the Amazon jungle, award-winning scholar Greg Grandin’s FORDLANDIA excavates the fascinating history of the battle between industrialized capitalism and the raw power of nature, casting new light on Henry Ford’s legacy and a forgotten chapter in U.S. and Latin American history.

This cautionary tale of the single greatest failure from one of America’s greatest success stories should also be read as a parable for our current economic collapse, revealing the inevitable limitations of economic and cultural expansionism regardless of capitalization, faith and will.

GREG GRANDIN is the author of Empire’s Workshop (of which Hugo Chavez said, ‘What is happening today in Latin America? To answer this question read Empire’s Workshop’.), The Last Colonial Massacre, and the award-winning The Blood of Guatemala. A Professor of History at New York University, and a previous Guggenheim fellow, Grandin has served on the United Nations Truth Commission investigating the Guatemalan Civil War and has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New Statesman, and The New York Times.

‘A fascinating historical narrative and a genuinely readable history recounted with a novelist’s sense of pace and an eye for character…
engrossingly enjoyable.’ Los Angeles Times