The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty

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The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback: a scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that builtx2014;and then lostx2014;a global wine empire Set in Californiax2019;s 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.x2019;s twenty-first-century battle over a billion-dollar fortune, award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler brings to life both the place and the people in this riveting family drama. A meticulously reported narrative based on more than five hundred hours of interviews, The House of Mondavi is a modern classic.

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Julia Flynn writes front-page stories for The Wall Street Journal from San Francisco, reporting extensively on the recent turbulence at the Robert Mondavi Corp. She was a London-based foreign correspondent for the Journal andBusinessWeek, and has written for The New York Times. She is a graduate of Brown University and Columbiax92;s Graduate School of Journalism. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.