Books Details
Author : Snowden Wright Pages : 416 pages Publisher : William Morrow
Language : ISBN-10 : 38376045 ISBN-13 : 9780062697769
Books Descriptions
The story of a family. The story of an empire. The story of a nation.Moving from
Mississippi to Paris to New York and back again, a saga of family, ambition,
passion, and tragedy that brings to life one unforgettable Southern dynasty?the
Forsters, founders of the world?s first major soft-drink company?against the
backdrop of more than a century of American cultural history.The child of
immigrants, Houghton Forster has always wanted more?from his time as a
young boy in Mississippi, working twelve-hour days at his father?s drugstore; to
the moment he first laid eyes on his future wife, Annabelle Teague, a true
Southern belle of aristocratic lineage; to his invention of the delicious fizzy
drink that would transform him from tiller boy into the founder of an empire,
the Panola Cola Company, and entice a youthful, enterprising nation entering a
hopeful new age.Now the heads of a preeminent American family spoken about
in the same breath as the Hearsts and the Rockefellers, Houghton and
