Fordlandia

Henry Ford needed rubber. So in 1927 he bought up 2.5 million acres of Amazon jungle and founded a colony: Fordlandia. As Greg Grandin tells it, his attempt to impose assembly-line order on the world's most chaotic ecosystem is a quintessentially American fable.

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