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J. G. Boswell was the largest farmer in the us. He built a top secret empire while thumbing his nostril at aspect, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever really tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields". The King of California is the previously untold profile of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s, drained one of America 's biggest lakes within an act of amazing hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire on earth. Indeed, the class of Boswell 's agricultural operation - from laboratory to field to gin - is unrivaled everywhere. Much more than a business storyline, this is a sweeping communal record that details the saga of cotton growers who were chased from the South by the boll weevil and brought their dark farmhands to California. It is a gripping read with cameos by a solid of famous heroes, from Cecil B. DeMille to Cesar Chavez.
