Strong Wine - Mcginty, Brian
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"The definitive biography of 'the father of California viticulture, ' an intriguing and compelling book, at once scholarly and entertaining. Haraszthy's checkered career (full of magnificent successes and allegations of scandalous misbehavior) intersects with topics central to an understanding of 19th-century California."--James L. Rawls, Diablo Valley College "This fine biography . . . is a balanced, well-written account of a truly remarkable if reckless entrepreneur."--The Journal of American History

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"The definitive biography of 'the father of California viticulture, ' an intriguing and compelling book, at once scholarly and entertaining. Haraszthy's checkered career (full of magnificent successes and allegations of scandalous misbehavior) intersects with topics central to an understanding of 19th-century California."--James L. Rawls, Diablo Valley College "This fine biography . . . is a balanced, well-written account of a truly remarkable if reckless entrepreneur."--The Journal of American History
Autorenporträt
Brian McGinty is the great-great-grandson of Agoston Haraszthy. Attorney, historian, and writer, he is the author of Haraszthy at the Mint and The Palace Inns. For this book, he spent years researching original sources in Hungary, Wisconsin, California, and Nicaragua (where Haraszthy met a strange death in 1869).