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The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire

by Linda Himelstein

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    IACP Award winner

    The book is described as a winner of the IACP Awards.

  • Bestseller

    BusinessWeek Best Business Book of 2009

    Listed as a Best Business Book of 2009.

  • Critical praise

    Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle

    The newspaper praises the book as an impressive feat of research, told swiftly and enthusiastically.

Book overview

"A operatic tour-de-force." --Tilar J. Mazzeo, author of The Widow Clicquot

"An impressive feat of research, told swiftly and enthusiastically." --San Francisco Chronicle

From Vanderbilt and Rockefeller to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, America's captains of industry are paragons of entrepreneurial success, and books about business history, from The First Tycoon to The Big Short, show exemplars of capitalistic cunning and tenacity...but just as American cocktail connoisseurs can mistake Absolut, Skyy, Grey Goose, or Ketel One for the quintessential clear spirit, so too has America's vision of business history remained na

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