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"A operatic tour-de-force." -Tilar J. Mazzeo, author of The Widow Clicquot "An impressive feat of research, informed swiftly and enthusiastically." -San Francisco Chronicle From Vanderbilt and Rockefeller to Costs Gates and Steve Careers, America's captains of industry are paragons of entrepreneurial success, and literature about business background, from The First Tycoon to The Big Brief, show exemplars of capitalistic cunning and tenacity...and American cocktail connoisseurs can fault Absolut, Skyy, Grey Goose, or Ketel One for the quintessential clear nature, so too has America's eyesight of business background continued to be naïve to a real truth long acknowledged in Eastern European countries: because the time of Tsar Nicholas, both vodka and commercial success have been synonymous in Russia with one name-Smirnoff. Linda Himelstein's critically acclaimed biography of Russian vodka scion Pyotr Smirnov-a finalist for the James Beard Award, champion of the IACP and Saroyan Accolades, and a BusinessWeek Best Business Reserve of 2009-is the sweeping story of entrepreneurship, empire, and epicurean triumph unlike anything the entire world has ever before seen before.
