ysmarko (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... it feels to be the recipient of that. worthwhile reading for teens and adults who care about them. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin the fascinating true story of henry ford’s attempt to create a culturally-influencing utopia in the amazon rainforest, with all kinds of implications for what a friend called “poisonwood business” (really, any...
Jungle Trader (Free subscription) | yesterday
I planned to end this blog to focus on new business opportunities. An avalanche of protests from unhappy readers buried that idea. Several of the protests came from Washington, DC. At the moment I am reading Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City . A quote from the book: Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century explorers and missionaries often portrayed...
OUPblog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ) Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City ( Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt ) Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy ( Princeton University Press ) T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt...
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... Epic Adventures in the Searchfor the Origins of Species (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt)Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Princeton University Press)T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Alfred...
Favorite PASTimes (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt) Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Princeton University Press) T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt...
World Hum (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
The finalists for this year’s National Book Award have been announced , and there are a couple of familiar names on the list. Marcel Theroux—son of Paul, and a sometime travel journalist himself—is nominated in the fiction category for his novel, “Far North,” while Greg Grandin’s Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City landed...
Legal History Blog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The 2009 National Book Award finalists have been announced:David M. Carroll, Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Sean B. Carroll, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt)Adrienne...
Chasing Ray (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
... a graphic novel memoir hold up in the adult category against more traditional heavy hitters like Fordlandia and The First Tycoon ? This is only the second graphic novel to make it to the finals and the first one was - yeah, you know it already, in the YP category. Looks like hedging your bets to me. Really though, who cares what category the book is nominated in? The question here is does...
ringShout (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Greg Grandin , Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt) Adrienne Mayor , The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Princeton University Press) T. J. Stiles , The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Alfred...
Lessons in Curating. Lessons in Culture. (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... the Search for the Origins of Species" from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Greg Grandin for "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City" from Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt Adrienne Mayor for "The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy" from Princeton University Press T. J. Stiles for "The First Tycoon: The...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... Epic Adventures in the Searchfor the Origins of Species (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt) Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Princeton University Press) T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Alfred...
Perpetual Folly (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt) Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Princeton University Press) T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... the Search for the Origins of Species" from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Greg Grandin for "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City" from Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt Adrienne Mayor for "The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy" from Princeton University Press T. J. Stiles for T"he First Tycoon: The...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Nonfiction: T.J. Stiles; “The First Tycoon” (a biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt), Greg Grandin’s “Fordlandia” (about Henry Ford’s effort to set up a colony in Brazil), Sean B. Carroll’s “Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species,” David M. Carroll’s journal of New England wildlife “Following the Water,” Adrienne Mayor’s “The Poison King” (about Greco-Persian...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... and Bonnie Jo Campbell's "American Salvage."Stiles' "The First Tycoon" and Greg Grandin's "Fordlandia," about Henry Ford's ill-fated effort to set up a colony in Brazil, were nominees, along with Sean B. Carroll's "Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species" and David M. Carroll's journal of New England wildlife, "Following the Water." The fifth nonfiction...
