‘This is history of the most compelling and eminently readable kind.’
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Fordlandia was reviewed in the Independent on Sunday recently.
‘It is a story rich with dramatic potential, and the historian Greg Grandin tells it with the skill and verve of a great novelist. Ford emerges as the flawed protagonist: like Conrad’s Lord Jim, the industrialist imagined himself as the benevolent philosopher-king of a tropical realm, convinced that he “could make the world conform to his will”, only to find events spiralling beyond his control.’
