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Electric City
The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia
- Abrams (A&CB)
- by Thomas Hager
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Publisher | Abrams (A&CB) |
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ISBN | 9781419747960 |
Author(s) | Thomas Hager |
Publication date | May 2021 |
Edition | Hardback |
Dimensions | mm |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country’s poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s “Detroit of the South” would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American society, introducing mass commuting by car, use a new kind of currency called “energy dollars,” and have the added benefit (from Ford and Edison's view) of crippling the growth of socialism.
Electric City