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Características del artículo
- Estado
- En muy buen estado
- Notas del vendedor
- “very good condition overall, light edge wear, clean pages”
- Signed
- No
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Subject
- Americana,Business,Us History,Hospitality,Railroad
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Era
- 1800s
- Special Attributes
- Dust Jacket
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated, First Edition
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780553804379
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0553804375
ISBN-13
9780553804379
eBay Product ID (ePID)
74259548
Product Key Features
Book Title
Appetite for America : How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Railroads / History, United States / 19th Century, Culinary, Social History, Regional & Ethnic / American / General, Corporate & Business History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, Cooking, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-047790
Reviews
"Part business story, part social history, part family saga,Appetite for Americagives us the winning of the West in a whole new mouthwatering way."-Hampton Sides, author ofBlood and Thunder "Appetite for Americais the kind of superb non-fiction you don't see anymore-marvelously reported, fluidly written and a remarkable story about a remarkable man who influenced American culture perhaps more than anyone alive past or present. Today he is a footnote, but Stephen Fried brings him alive in a true story as brilliant as it is meticulous as it is compulsively readable."-Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, "Part business story, part social history, part family saga, Appetite for America gives us the winning of the West in a whole new mouthwatering way." --Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder " Appetite for America is the kind of superb non-fiction you don't see anymore--marvelously reported, fluidly written and a remarkable story about a remarkable man who influenced American culture perhaps more than anyone alive past or present. Today he is a footnote, but Stephen Fried brings him alive in a true story as brilliant as it is meticulous as it is compulsively readable." --Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, "Part business story, part social history, part family saga,Appetite for Americagives us the winning of the West in a whole new mouthwatering way."-Hampton Sides, author ofBlood and Thunder, “Part business story, part social history, part family saga, Appetite for America gives us the winning of the West in a whole new mouthwatering way.�-Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder " Appetite for America is the kind of superb non-fiction you don't see anymore-marvelously reported, fluidly written and a remarkable story about a remarkable man who influenced American culture perhaps more than anyone alive past or present. Today he is a footnote, but Stephen Fried brings him alive in a true story as brilliant as it is meticulous as it is compulsively readable."-Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, "Part business story, part social history, part family saga, Appetite for America gives us the winning of the West in a whole new mouthwatering way."-Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder " Appetite for America is the kind of superb non-fiction you don't see anymore-marvelously reported, fluidly written and a remarkable story about a remarkable man who influenced American culture perhaps more than anyone alive past or present. Today he is a footnote, but Stephen Fried brings him alive in a true story as brilliant as it is meticulous as it is compulsively readable."-Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
647.95092 B
Synopsis
Featured in the PBS documentary The Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations--from the 1880s all the way through World War II--and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the founding father of the nation's service industry, whose remarkable family business civilized the West and introduced America to Americans. Appetite for America is the incredible real-life story of Fred Harvey--told in depth for the first time ever--as well as the story of this country's expansion into the Wild West of Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, of the great days of the railroad, of a time when a deal could still be made with a handshake and the United States was still uniting. As a young immigrant, Fred Harvey worked his way up from dishwasher to household name: He was Ray Kroc before McDonald's, J. Willard Marriott before Marriott Hotels, Howard Schultz before Starbucks. His eating houses and hotels along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad (including historic lodges still in use at the Grand Canyon) were patronized by princes, presidents, and countless ordinary travelers looking for the best cup of coffee in the country. Harvey's staff of carefully screened single young women--the celebrated Harvey Girls--were the country's first female workforce and became genuine Americana, even inspiring an MGM musical starring Judy Garland. With the verve and passion of Fred Harvey himself, Stephen Fried tells the story of how this visionary built his business from a single lunch counter into a family empire whose marketing and innovations we still encounter in myriad ways. Inspiring, instructive, and hugely entertaining, Appetite for America is historical biography that is as richly rewarding as a slice of fresh apple pie--and every bit as satisfying. *With two photo inserts featuring over 75 images, and an appendix with over fifty Fred Harvey recipes, most of them never-before-published., Featured in the PBS documentary "The Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound"The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations--from the 1880s all the way through World War II--and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the founding father of the nation's service industry, whose remarkable family business civilized the West and introduced America to Americans. "Appetite for America" is the incredible real-life story of Fred Harvey--told in depth for the first time ever--as well as the story of this country's expansion into the Wild West of Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, of the great days of the railroad, of a time when a deal could still be made with a handshake and the United States was still uniting. As a young immigrant, Fred Harvey worked his way up from dishwasher to household name: He was Ray Kroc before McDonald's, J. Willard Marriott before Marriott Hotels, Howard Schultz before Starbucks. His eating houses and hotels along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad (including historic lodges still in use at the Grand Canyon) were patronized by princes, presidents, and countless ordinary travelers looking for the best cup of coffee in the country. Harvey's staff of carefully screened single young women--the celebrated Harvey Girls--were the country's first female workforce and became genuine Americana, even inspiring an MGM musical starring Judy Garland. With the verve and passion of Fred Harvey himself, Stephen Fried tells the story of how this visionary built his business from a single lunch counter into a family empire whose marketing and innovations we still encounter in myriad ways. Inspiring, instructive, and hugely entertaining, "Appetite for America" is historical biography that is as richly rewarding as a slice of fresh apple pie--and every bit as satisfying. "*With two photo inserts featuring over 75 images, and an appendix with over fifty Fred Harvey recipes, most of them never-before-published."
LC Classification Number
TX910.5.H34F75 2009
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