Citizen Coors: A Grand Family Saga of Business, Politics, and Beer - Softcover

Baum, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060959460 ISBN 13: 9780060959463

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2001

Synopsis

Name by Jonathon Yardly of the Washington Post as one of the best books of 2000, Citizen Coors combines a monumental business story with a heartrending tale of family strife and a sweeping vista of American politics in the last half of the twentieth century. From the moment when the dsitute Prussian Adolph Coors stows away to America in 1868, through the creation of the Heritage Foundation, to the global expansion of the billion-dollar Coors Brewing Company, the Coors family triumphed by iron-willed commitment to its own values -- values that ironically prove the family's undoing on both the business and political fronts.

Acclaimed writer Dan Baum captures it all, from Adolph's Prohibition-provoked suicide to the banishment of an heir-apparent for marrying without permission. Baum vividly depicts the genius, eccentricity, and tragic weaknesses of the remarkable Coors family.

About this title

About the Author:

Dan Baum has been a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and now writes occasionally for Rolling Stone. He is the author of Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure. He lives with his wife and daughter in Watsonville, California.

Review:

"An arresting view of America through the distorted lens of a weird and wealthy family."-- "Barron's"Baum's take on Coors's dynasty makes good reading."-- "USA Today

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0060959460
• ISBN 13: 9780060959463
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400