House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty by Julia Flynn Siler

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  • Publisher: Gotham Books
  • Pub. Date: May 2008
  • ISBN-13: 9781592403677
  • Sales Rank: 6,038
  • 464pp
  • Edition Description: Reprint
 
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* Mp3 CD Format *. Set in Californias lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of Mondavi is a tale of genius, sibling rivalry, and betrayal. From 1906, when Italian immigrant Cesare Mondavi passed through Ellis Island, to the Robert Mondavi Corporations twenty-first-century battle over a billion-dollar fortune, award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler brings to life both the place and the people in this riveting family drama.

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Based on exhaustive research and interviews, each page is packed with facts and footnotes which, by dint of superb writing, manage to engage the reader and avoid the data brain-lock that would have plagued a less-talented journalist.

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Julia Flynn Siler writes for The Wall Street Journal from San Francisco. She is a former London-based staff writer for the Journal and BusinessWeek, and has written for The New York Times. She is a graduate of Brown University, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.

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A Non-Fiction Page Turner!by Anonymous

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June 05, 2008: Julia Flynn Siler's The House of Mondavi starts with everything that makes a great story: a wonderfully complex and larger-than-life character, a lush wine-country setting, a conflicted family, and a great undertaking. She brings the story to life with a journalist's eye for the telling detail and a fine fiction writer's sense of plot, pacing, and instinct for the great tragedy that so often results from excesses of pride. The result is a page-turner that leaves the reader not just with the sense of having enjoyed a satisfying story, but also with a deep knowledge of the history of the rise of California's wine industry and a better understanding of human nature. I would recommend this book to anyone.

A fascinating readby Anonymous

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January 22, 2008: This book is for anyone who is even remotely interested in wine and anyone who has fallen in love with Napa Valley. There are quite a few characters so it was at times difficult to get them straight but all in all I would highly recommend this book. I couldn't put it down.


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