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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 [...]
Jungle Trader (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Quote from Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City : Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century explorers and missionaries often portrayed the jungle either as evil inherent or as revealing the evil men carry inside. Traveling through the region in 1930, the Anglican lay leader Kenneth Grubb wrote that the forest brings out the "worst instincts...
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... Wood, Empire 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...
World Hum (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The annual list is out , and some familiar travel writing names are on it: Geoff Dyer’s “Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi” and Orhan Pamuk’s “The Museum of Innocence” appear in the fiction section, while a few travel-related titles made the nonfiction list—Bill Streever’s “Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places,” Greg...
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... that Ford's mass production techniques helped inspire the clean lines of modernist architects. Greg Grandin's Fordlandia (Metropolitan Books, $27.50) chronicles Henry Ford's ill-advised attempt to realize a homespun American workers' town in the middle of the Brazilian rain forest. A Motor City Year (Wayne State, $39.95). In it, photographer John Sobczak encapsulates a year in 365...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... )* • J. Sydney Jones ( The Empty Mirror )* • Frank Kane ( Stacked Deck )* • Rafe McGregor ( The Architect of Murder ) * • Stefanie Pintoff ( In the Shadow of Gotham ) * • Talmage Powell ( Corpus Delectable )* • A.E. Roman ( Chinatown Angel ) * • Dan Simmons ( Drood ) • Robert Terrall ( Kill Now, Pay Later )* Of course, my reading appetites aren’t...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... friend Joanne Woodward. T.J. Stiles' book on Vanderbilt, "The First Tycoon"; and Greg Grandin's "Fordlandia," about Ford's ill-fated effort to set up a colony in Brazil, were nonfiction nominees, along with Sean B. Carroll's "Remarkable Creatures" and David M. Carroll's journal of New England wildlife "Following the Water." The fifth nonfiction...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... longtime friend Joanne Woodward.
T.J. Stiles' book on Vanderbilt, "The First Tycoon"; and Greg Grandin's "Fordlandia," about Ford's ill-fated effort to set up a colony in Brazil, were nonfiction nominees, along with Sean B. Carroll's "Remarkable Creatures" and David M. Carroll's journal of New England wildlife "Following the Water."
The fifth nonfiction finalist was Adrienne...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
( | )Had Henry Ford stumbled into El Dorado, the Amazon's legendary golden city, he probably wouldn't have had much use for it.First of all, he was rich. Furthermore, Ford's idea of a jungle city was a tad more austere.Or at least that's the argument that Greg Grandin puts forth in "Fordlandia," a thoroughly researched account of Ford's ill-fated Amazonian rubber plantation.In 1928, Ford...
Jungle Trader (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
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...
ysmarko (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... 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 exporting of culture, or cultural superiority). a bit long and...
Caribbeans Science and Art. (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 21, 200910:49 AM CONTACT: Latin American ExpertsGreg Grandin, grandin@nyu.edu Adrienne Pine, 202-652-5601 Women reported abuse by police of Micheletti because of the state of helplessness in Honduras. Over 90 Experts Call on Human Rights Watch to Speak Out on Honduras Abuses WASHINGTON - August 21 - 93 scholars and Latin America experts from institutions...
BoRev.Net (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
So like forty-eight hours after this Historic Deal was struck, nobody agrees on what it says, not even a little bit. There are loopholes, there are congressional votes, there are supreme court decisions, this shit will never end, blah. Anyway for your reading "pleasure," we submit: Greg Grandin on why this deal is so screwy , from a lefty perspective. This Wall Street Journal editorial,...
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... we already have the recognition of the international community for the elections.” [Bloomberg] Via Greg Grandin in the Nation.
