http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/drinking-in-a-family%e2%80%99s-history-tom-gjelten%e2%80%99s-bacardi-and-the-long-fight-for-cuba-books-i-didn%e2%80%99t-finish/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Thu, 16 May 2013 19:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/drinking-in-a-family%e2%80%99s-history-tom-gjelten%e2%80%99s-bacardi-and-the-long-fight-for-cuba-books-i-didn%e2%80%99t-finish/#comment-6878 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:54:37 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=3048#comment-6878 What a great suggestion. Thank you! So many books about business are so dry. Yet — in the current economic climate — we need the good ones. Maybe one answer for people who like great business stories is to rediscover some books like “The Arms of Krupp.”

]]> http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/drinking-in-a-family%e2%80%99s-history-tom-gjelten%e2%80%99s-bacardi-and-the-long-fight-for-cuba-books-i-didn%e2%80%99t-finish/#comment-6877 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:43:52 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=3048#comment-6877 This reminds me a bit of ‘The Arms of Krupp.’ I read it at fifeen and loved it. A steel-making family might not be so interesting in themselves…but a steelmaking family that got all tangled up in Hitler’s business is fascinating. And actually, most of the family was quite eccentric anyway so it was a great blend of biography and history.

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