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Latin America News Review (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
GRITtv June 30, 2009 Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, takes a fresh look at how American hubris and imperial ambitions led to the establishment of an outpost of the auto industry in the Brazilian rainforest. Ford, in many ways an embodiment of the contradictions of American capitalism (The Wall Street Journal once...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Henry Ford Estate volunteer Ed Hebb, who may or may not have worked with Henry Ford himself, shows us how to start and drive a Model T . It's pretty damn informative seeing as you'll never get to drive one. [ Neatorama ]
Wilson Graf Consulting (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Henry Ford Estate volunteer Ed Hebb, who may or may not have worked with Henry Ford himself, shows us how to start and drive a Model T . It's pretty damn informative seeing as you'll never get to drive one. [ Neatorama ]
KIJO (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Henry Ford Estate volunteer Ed Hebb, who may or may not have worked with Henry Ford himself, shows us how to start and drive a Model T . It's pretty damn informative seeing as you'll never get to drive one. [ Neatorama ]
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009 : We speak with NYU professor Greg Grandin about his new book, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City . The book tells the story of Henry Ford, the richest man in the world in the 1920s, and his attempt to build a rubber plantation and a miniature Midwest factory town deep in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.
Literanista (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Greg Grandin, a professor of Latin American history at NYU, is the author o Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City. There is an interesting story on Fordlandia, auto giant Henry Ford's utopian experiment the Brazilian Amazon, at www.tomdispatch.com You can join the discussion and book signing with Greg at The Strand Bookstore on...
OUPblog (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lampshade, the world we live in has been profoundly influenced by the work of American designers. Below is an extract from Design in the USA by Jeffrey L. Meikle, part of the Oxford History of Art series, which discusses automobile design and the marketing strategies by Ford and General Motors in the 1920s. The automobile was...
Driive (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lampshade, the world we live in has been profoundly influenced by the work of American designers. Below is an extract from Design in the USA by Jeffrey L. Meikle, part of the Oxford History of Art series, which discusses automobile design and the marketing strategies by Ford and General Motors in the 1920s. The automobile was...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Historian Greg Grandin has taken what heretofore seemed a marginal event — Henry Ford's failed attempt to establish a gigantic agricultural/industrial complex in the heart of Brazil's Amazon Basin.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Fordlandia The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City By Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books; 416 pages; $27.50) We revere Henry Ford: the inventor of modern mass production; the man who put Americans on wheels; the stolid Midwesterner whose...
Miss C Recommends (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
(YouTube link) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxb5R4rSgxE If you are ever lucky enough to get the chance to drive a Ford Model T , keep in mind that they were a bit different from modern cars. Who knew it had three pedals, none of which was an accelerator? Henry Ford Estate volunteer Ed Hebb takes you through the process. (via Metafilter ) Send messages to radiofox@gmail.com
Wonderful Things In Life (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
* To achieve great things you have first to believe it. -Arsene Wenger * Character is the sum total of all our everyday choices. -Margaret Jensen * Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. -Henry Ford * If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don’t drag your feet. -Arnot L. Sheppard * Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar...
Thought of the Day (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're probably right" -Henry ford
Click World News (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Ed Hebb, a volunteer at the Henry Ford Estate, shows how to start and drive a Ford Model T. Now I know. (via BB Gadgets) Previously:Model-T snowmobile hacks - Boing Boing Boing Boing: HOWTO convert a Model T into a tractor...
