Fordlandia: The rise and fall of Henry Ford’s forgotten jungle city
“Mr Ford shoots about 1,500 cars out the back door of his factory every day just to get rid of them. They are the byproducts of his real business, which is the making of men.”
Ford hated cows, believing what they produced wasn’t worth the effort; he wore clothes made from soy fibre and, while suspected of being illiterate, managed to change the face of the modern world through his production of vehicles for the mass market.
