Fordlandia
Fordlandia, The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin In 1927, an increasingly eccentric Henry Ford purchased a tract of land about the size of […]
Empresses Of Seventh Avenue
Empresses of Seventh Avenue by Nancy MacDonell American fashion designers are so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine a time when there was no such creature. But prior to […]
Empire of Pain
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe If you read Keefe’s 2017 article in The New Yorker about the slippery Sackler family, then you must read his book about the […]
Factory Man
Factory Man by Beth Macy Being a Bassett of Bassett furniture fame was a good gig for a lot of years. As long as you could stomach working for one […]
David and Goliath
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell After hearing Malcolm Gladwell speak at Belmont last month (see March newsletter), I knew I would […]