Colonel Sanders and the American Dream (Discovering America (University of Texas Press))
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (593 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0292723822 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 156 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Awesome. Loved it" according to Justin Linsenmeyer. Just as described. Awesome. Loved it!. A Labor of Love for Fried Chicken Lonnie I really enjoyed Josh Ozersky's "The Hamburger," and I love fried chicken too, so I thought I'd give this book a whirl. The "American Dream" theme applies mostly to the first half of the book, which details Colonel Sanders' roots, his rise as a businessman, and the establishment of the KFC empire, owing greatly in part to the Co. Thumbs up Richard This was a present for my autistic son, he told me he loved the story of the Colonel and how he worked hard to make his business successful.
But to get there, he had to give up control of his company and even his own image, becoming a mere symbol to people today who don’t know that Colonel Sanders was a very real human being. From Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars’ worth of products. Forced at age ten to go to work to help support his widowed mother and sisters, he failed at job after job until he went into business for himself as a gas station/café/motel owner and finally achieved a comfortable, middle-class life. Packing his car with a pressure cooker and his secret blend of eleven herbs and spices, he began peddling the recipe for “Colonel Sanders’ Kentucky Fried Chicken” to small-town diners in exchange for a nickel for each chicken they sold. From a 1930s roadside café in Corbin, Kentucky,
. He writes on society and food for Time magazine and has written frequently for New York Magazine, the New York Times, Saveur, and numerous other publications. Among his other books are Archie Bunker's America: TV in an Era of Change, 1968–1978 and Meat Me in Manhattan: A Carnivore's Guide to Manhattan. Josh Ozersky is a
The Colonel, whose ambition knew no bounds and whose stubborn, ineradicable sense of self survived even his own apotheosis, did, in fact live the American Dream. He transcended his own limitations and the conditions of his birth. He continues to represent a very real time, place, product, and person, and his icon is hollow without the man behind it." Review: "Food writer, Josh Ozersky has written a very good business book. He profiles the many colossal failures of the Kentucky Fried Chicken founder, Harlan Sanders, and the success he had at 65 creating KFC. But in retrospect, it was his greatest triumph, and his best legacy, th