When the Rivers Ran Red: An Amazing Story of Courage and Triumph in America's Wine Country - Couverture rigide

Sosnowski, Vivienne

 
9780230605749: When the Rivers Ran Red: An Amazing Story of Courage and Triumph in America's Wine Country
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ISBN 10 : 0230605745 ISBN 13 : 9780230605749
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Synopsis

Today, millions of people around the world enjoy California's legendary wines, unaware that 90 years ago the families who made these wines - and in many cases still do - turned to struggle and subterfuge to save the industry we now cherish. When Prohibition took effect in 1919, three months after one of the greatest California grape harvests of all time, violence and chaos descended on Northern California. Federal agents spilled thousands of gallons of wine in the rivers and creeks, gun battles erupted on dark country roads, and local law enforcement officers, sympathetic to their winemaking neighbors, found ways to run circles around the intruding authorities. For the state's winemaking families - many of them immigrants from Italy - surviving Prohibition meant facing impossible decisions, whether to give up the idyllic way of life their families had known for generations, or break the law to enable their wine businesses and their livelihood to survive. Including moments of both desperation and joy, Sosnowski tells the inspiring story of how ordinary people fought to protect to a beautiful and timeless culture in the lovely hills and valleys of now-celebrated wine country.

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À propos de l?auteur

VIVIENNE SOZNOWSKI is the Editorial Director of all three Examiner newspapers, the Washington Examiner the San Francisco Examiner and the Baltimore Examiner. A gifted photographer whose work has been exhibited, she divides her time between the East and West coasts, including a home in the wine country of Sonoma County.

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0230605745
ISBN 13 
9780230605749
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Koch-Chemie GmbH
https://www.koch-chemie.com

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ISBN 10 :  0230103375 ISBN 13 :  9780230103375
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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