About the Book
Fordlandia
The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History and National Book Award
What People are Saying
“Grandin takes full command of a complicated narrative with numerous threads, and the story spills out in precisely the right tone—about midway between Joseph Conrad and Evelyn Waugh.”
The American Scholar
Picked by TLS‘s Sir Ferdinand Mount as best book of 2010: “alive to every nuance of the story but is sparing with the condescension of posterity . . . .”
Sir Ferdinand Mount
One of the BBC’s Ten Best Driving Books of 2010 : “The thinking man’s car book. . . . “
Published in Brazil as Fordlândia: Ascensão e queda da cidade esquecida and called “um grande livro ” by country’s leading columnist.
Elio Gaspari
“A “Best book of 2010” (paperback), NPR’s”
The Takeaway