INTRODUCTION: Nothing Is Wrong with Anything 1
PART I: MANY THINGS OTHERWISE INEXPLICABLE
1: Under an American Flag
21
2: The Cow Must Go
33
3: Absolute Americanisms
43
4: That's Where We Sure Can Get Gold
55
5: Fordville
77
6: They Will All Die
86
7: Everything Jake
97
8: When Ford Comes
108
PART II: LORD FORD
9: Two Rivers
123
10: Smoke and Ash
134
11: Prophesied Subjection
147
12: The Ford Way of Thinking
165
13: What Would You Give for a Good Job?
180
14: Let's Wander Out Yonder
202
15: Kill All the Americans
220
PART III: RUBBER ROUGE
16: American Pastoral
239
17: Good Lines, Straight and True
264
18: Mountains of the Moon
276
19: Only God Can Grow a Tree
294
20: Standard Practices
305
21: Bonfire of the Caterpillars
316
22: Fallen Empire of Rubber
333
23: Tomorrow Land
343
EPILOGUE: Still Waiting for Henry Ford 353
Notes 373
Illustration Credits 399
Acknowledgments 401
Index 403