Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs is proud to congratulate COHA Senior Research Fellow Greg Grandin for the recent recognition by the editors of the New York Times Book Review. On December 6, his nonfiction book, entitled Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, was listed among the 100 Most Notable [...]
Matt Compton (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... from the beginning through the course of 30 years. It’s full of emotional impact and loss. Fordlandia by Greg Grandin is a history of the rubber plantation that Henry Ford tried to carve out of the Amazon. His ambition was to create a model of Americana in the middle of the jungle, but it was a project almost doomed from the start. Columbine by Dave Cullen is fascinating history of the Columbine...
NYU Local (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
If you’re the rare beast interested in historical non-fiction and super-spirited about all things NYU, this is your year;greg two NYU historians’ books are on The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2009 list. Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits , by history prof. Linda Gordon , is a look at badass photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange (obviously). Greg Grandin ’s Fordlandia: The...
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic . 5. Columbine , by David Cullen. 8. By Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City . 9. Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World . 10. Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong , by Terry Teachout. I thought all of those were well done but Lords of Finance was the only one I loved. My favorites...
