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 book suggestion: Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild WestIf it's allowed, I'm going to suggest my own book, which comes out in trade paperback May 3--after being selected, among other things, one of the Ten Best Books of the 2010 by the Wall Street Journal.
Appetite for America is the first-ever biography of visionary entrepreneur Fred Harvey, generally considered to be the founding father of the American hospitality industry and gastronomic culture. His revolutionary family business—running restaurants and hotels between Chicago and California along the Santa Fe railroad and later Route 66, including the historic inns still in use at the Grand Canyon and in Santa Fe—changed the way we eat, drink, travel, even the way we see our country. His famous waitresses, the Harvey Girls, were America’s sweethearts from the 1880s through the 1940s, and among the first working women in the country: Judy Garland famously played one in the Oscar-winning 1946 MGM musical “The Harvey Girls.” Besides offering the first in-depth look at this under-appreciated figure in American culture—based on a huge cache of newly discovered diaries, correspondence and documents—Appetite for America also documents in a fresh, appealing way the commercial, political and social developments in American history from the Civil War through World War II. “If history books had read like [this] when I was in school,” says one reviewer. “I would have spent a lot more time with my nose in the book instead of staring out the window or watching the clock.” If you’d like to know more about the book, click here to read an excerpt from it: http://www.fredharveybook.com/excerpt, or here to check out my One Nation Under Fred blog:http://www.fredharveybook.com/blog. And if anyone would like to join me in a discussion of Fred Harvey, the Harvey Girls, the early days of the hospitality industry, or Southwest travel past or present (I actually know how to get reservations at the Grand Canyon hotels), that would be great Stephen Fried adjunct professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism http://www.stephenfried.com |
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