Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Greg Grandin
The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.
Award History
0 wins · 3 total
| Award | Year | Result | Category / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulitzer Prize in HistoryMajor | 2010 | Finalist | Secondary source |
| National Book Award for NonfictionMajor | 2009 | Finalist | Secondary source |
| National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionMajor | 2009 | Finalist | Secondary source |
Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies
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01 Central figures
- Henry Ford80%
02 Central places
None extracted with sufficient confidence.
These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.
- the Amazon60%
03 Suggested argument
No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.
This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.
The book portrays Fordlandia as a quixotic effort to recreate small-town America in the Amazon and suggests this attempt failed in the face of challenges that the American factory system helped dispatch.
Model confidence 45%
04 Reading orientation
35 / 100 academicSerious trade
An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.
Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 55%.