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Napa at Last Light: America's Eden in an Age of Calamity

Name: Napa at Last Light: America's Eden in an Age of Calamity
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ISBN: 9781501128479

Conaway, James

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A New York Times bestselling author reveals how the beautiful, isolated Napa Valley wine region of California exploded into an extraordinary outsized version of the American dream and whose vineyards sparked an unbelievable power struggle between old family stewardship and multinational corporations. Not so long ago, wine was an exclusively European product. Now it is thoroughly American; emblematic of Napa Valley, an area idealized as the epicenter of great wines and foods and a cultural tourist destination. But the romanticized accounts you find about it and its denizens is not what you'll encounter in James Conaway's candid book. Napa at Last Light exposes the often shadowy side of the latter days of Napa Valley—marked by complex personal relationships, immense profits, passionate beliefs, and sometimes desperate struggles to prevail. In the balance hang fortunes and personal relationships made through hard work and, in too many cases,...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

1501128477

ISBN 13:

9781501128479