Title

Family spirits : the Bacardi saga / Peter Foster.

Author

Foster, Peter, 1947-

Publication

Toronto : Macfarlane Walter & Ross, c1990.

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Details

Description

305 p., [24] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• History
• Distilling industries > Caribbean Area > History
• Rum industry > Caribbean Area > History
• Bacardi Corp History
• Bacardi family

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-290) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rum and revolution -- Answered prayers -- Success at last -- Bathing in Bacardi -- The barons of booze -- From Pimpernel to politician -- Taking to the hills -- From dream to nightmare -- Expropriation: Atlas shrugs -- La lucha and betrayal -- Survival and success -- Dropping the pilot -- Eddy Nielsen's brief honeymoon -- Diversifying into trouble -- Bacardi meets bonfire of the vanities -- Heading for the legal hills -- Enough is enough -- Family portraits -- The other Bacardi family -- Cuba libre? -- Epilogue -- Bacardi family trees.

ISBN

0921912021 :

LCCN

cn^90094878^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library