| The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty | 
 enlarge | Author: Julia Flynn Siler
Publisher: Gotham
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 64098
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.7
ISBN: 1592402593
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.766320092273
EAN: 9781592402595
ASIN: 1592402593
Publication Date: June 19, 2007
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Product Description
An epic, scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that builtand then spectacularly losta global wine empire Set in Californias lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of Mondavi is a tale of genius, sibling rivalry, and betrayal. From 1906, when Italian immigrant Cesare Mondavi passed through Ellis Island, to the Robert Mondavi Corp.s twenty-first-century battle over a billion-dollar fortune, award-winning journalist Julia Flynn brings to life both the place and the people in this riveting family drama. The blood feuds are as spectacular as the business triumphs. Cesares sons, Robert and Peter, literally came to blows in the 1960s during a dispute touched off by the purchase of a mink coat, resulting in Roberts exile from the familyand his subsequent founding of a winery that would set off a revolution in American winemaking. Roberts sons, Michael and Timothy, as passionate in their own ways as their visionary father, waged battle with each other for control of the company before Michaels expansive ambitions ultimately led to a board coup and the sale of the business to an international conglomerate. A meticulously reported narrative based on thousands of hours of interviews, The House of Mondavi is bound to become a classic.
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 Great story July 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The author is to be commended for making this story so fascinating to read. What a treacherous family!
 Good June 12, 2008
Have only read one half of story as it was so long and drug out for so many pages that it became tiring and we had to put it down and will readdress it at a later date. So much turmoil in a family. So Sad
Interesting tale, but poorly written May 17, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Only a writer with cloth ears would start a sentence with "As well, ..." Ms. Siler does so at least 50 times in this book. I cringed every time.
As well, she devotes far too much space to irrelevant minutiae. See what I mean?
Reads like the best fiction - but it's real! May 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Julia Flynn Siler's The House of Mondavi starts with everything that makes a great story: a wonderfully complex and larger-than-life character, a lush wine-country setting, a conflicted family, and a great undertaking. She brings the story to life with a journalist's eye for the telling detail and a fine fiction writer's sense of plot, pacing, and instinct for the great tragedy that so often results from excesses of pride. The result is a page-turner that leaves the reader not just with the sense of having enjoyed a satisfying story, but also with a deep knowledge of the history of the rise of California's wine industry and a better understanding of human nature. I would recommend this book to anyone.
The Mondavi Story April 2, 2008
Intriguing story -- three generations of a famous, semi-dysfunctional winemaking family. The book is easy reading, though it is a little long; but the tale itself carries the day. Recommended.
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