"Recognized and acclaimed as a filmmaker whose deep research and knowledge undergirds his award-winning movies such as "The Brother from Another Planet," "Matewan," "Eight Men Out," "Passion Fish," "Lone Star," and others, Sayles' novels and short stories involve similar, intense preparatory investigations. His creative process has produced a vast array of stories that touch on race, class, gender, sexuality, society, culture, global colonization, politics and American corporate industries."
""Crucible" (published by Melville House) tells the sprawling historical narrative of the Ford Motor Co. from the 1920s to the mid-'40s. Covering the period from the Depression to the end of World War II, the character-driven story includes real-life figures - among others, celebrated artist and muralist Diego Rivera, champion heavyweight boxer Joe Louis, and of course, Henry Ford and his family. Fictional characters rooted in history abound, from Detroit journalists to Brazilians hired to work at Fordlandia, Ford's massive rubber tree plantation in South America's Amazon region."
Crucible reconstructs the Ford Motor Company's trajectory from the 1920s through the mid-1940s, spanning the Depression and World War II. The narrative interweaves real historical figures such as Diego Rivera, Joe Louis, and Henry Ford with richly drawn fictional characters, including Detroit journalists, Brazilian laborers at Fordlandia, factory workers, union leaders, Nazis, Klansmen, Black employees, ex-convicts, and immigrant communities. The novel emerges from intensive archival and contextual research and foregrounds themes of race, class, gender, corporate power, global colonization, and the social consequences of industrial expansion.
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