In this lively history, Greg Grandin enlists a cast of union-busting thugs, a Norwegian sea captain, and a cranky botanist to tell the story of the short-lived Fordlandia plantation. More than ...

“Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City” is a genuinely readable history recounted with a novelist’s sense of pace and an eye for character. Ford put up $ ...

Author Greg Grandin tells the story in his new book, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City. The project didn't start out well, Grandin says. There was a huge clash of ...

In return, he would bring to this wild land a certain way of American life—one that, as author Greg Grandin wrote in his book Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City ...

The story of Fordlandia is so outlandish that it is tempting ... Grandin’s politics lean left, and he does end the book with a blast at capitalism. But he sees much in Ford to like.

Unfortunately, due to infighting, the challenging environment, parasites and plant disease, Ford's utopian city of Fordlandia was doomed from the start, and support for the project was ultimately ...

“He thought this was the perfect way to save rural life,” said Greg Grandin, a historian and the author of “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City.” By some ...

Argentina ‘s Pampa Films and Lungo Films are teaming up with U.S.-based Bravura Media to produce a series based on the novel “Fordlandia, a Dark Paradise” by Argentine scribe, Eduardo Sguiglia.

It was 1928, and a vast stretch of land in north-central Brazil was being cleared for a monumental undertaking: Fordlandia, a $20m city dreamed up by the richest man in the world at the time ...

L-R: Water tower at Fordlandia in the Amazon Rainforest, Guto Colunga, Rogerio Gomes, Paula Richards Joel Auerbach/Getty Images; Courtesy Guto Colunga (Colunga & Richards) Lars Niki/Corbis via ...