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A Parable of Arrogance
This tale of a utopia gone wrong gets bogged down in detail at times but is ultimately worth the effort to finish. I'd run across references to Fordlandia in books I'd read about the rubber and banana trades and was intrigued to learn more about Henry Ford's quixotic attempt to build a model town -- indeed, to create a model society -- in the depths of the Amazon.
"Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions of dollars founding not one but, afte ...more
This tale of a utopia gone wrong gets bogged down in detail at times but is ultimately worth the effort to finish. I'd run across references to Fordlandia in books I'd read about the rubber and banana trades and was intrigued to learn more about Henry Ford's quixotic attempt to build a model town -- indeed, to create a model society -- in the depths of the Amazon.
"Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions of dollars founding not one but, afte ...more
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