Ergebnis für "Sugar" in Wirtschaft

Claus Spreckels (1828-1908) emigrated from his homeland of Germany to the United States with only seventy-five cents in his pocket, built a sugar empire, and became one of the richest Americans in history. Migrating to San Francisco after the gold rush, Spreckels built the largest sugar beet factory of its kind in the United States. When Spreckels gave America its first sugar cube, he became the “Sugar King.” The indomitable Spreckels was a colorful and complicated character on both sides of the Pacific.

**Narrated by the author** “Superbly reported . . . A true saga of obscene wealth, obscene inhumanity, and, inevitably, obscene political power." —Carl Hiaasen, journalist and bestselling novelist Bestselling author and award-winning investigative journalist Sandy Tolan exposes the bitter...