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A man and his mountain : the everyman who created Kendall-Jackson and became America's greatest wine entrepreneur
- Title
- A man and his mountain : the everyman who created Kendall-Jackson and became America's greatest wine entrepreneur / Edward Humes.
- Author
- Humes, Edward
- Publication
- New York : PublicAffairs, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- vii, 324 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the story of the self-made billionaire who built the Kendall-Jackson empire from nothing into the biggest selling brand of premium wines in the U.S. Jess Stonestreet Jackson was one of a small band of pioneering entrepreneurs who put California's wine country on the map. His life story is a compelling slice of history, daring, innovation, feuds, intrigue, talent, mystique, contrarianism, and luck, offering a unique window on the elegant, adventurous, and cut-throat worlds of Jackson's two passions: wine and horseracing. Time after time his decisions would be ignored, derided, then finally envied and imitated, as whole industries watched him become a billionaire and tried to keep up. He reinvented himself at mid-life, and became founder and CEO of Kendall-Jackson. The empire he constructed endures and thrives even after his death in 2011. In A Man and His Mountain, Edward Humes brings us the no-holds barred tale of the brilliant, infuriating, successful man who seemed to win more than his share by staying far ahead of the pack"--
- Subjects
- Businessmen > California > Biography
- SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Success
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business
- Vintners > California > Biography
- Wine and wine making > California > History
- COOKING / Beverages / Wine & Spirits
- Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates (Firm) History
- Jackson, Jess Stonestreet, 1930-2011
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Prologue: Catch Me If You Can -- Diving In -- First Pour : Glut and Stuck -- The Street Smart Farm Boy -- The Oyster Bar and Nancy's Wine -- Joe Goodguy of the Berkeley PD -- Bending and Blending -- The New King of Wine Country Meets His Match -- Birth of a Terroirist -- VRU and the Hard "C" -- Gallo, Gall, Greens and Growth : Jess Jackson at War -- Family Man, Part II, and the Retirement That Didn't Stick -- Bluegrass Hurricane : Mr Jackson's Wild Ride -- The Vineyard by the Owl House.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-3911
- ISBN
- 9781610392853 (hardcover)
- 161039285X (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2013020106
- 40022900757
- OCLC
- 848393121
- Author
- Humes, Edward, author.
- Title
- A man and his mountain : the everyman who created Kendall-Jackson and became America's greatest wine entrepreneur / Edward Humes.
- Publisher
- New York : PublicAffairs, [2013]
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022900757
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-3911