Napa at last light: America's Eden in an age of calamity
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"Not so long ago, wine was an exclusively European product. Now it is thoroughly American; emblematic of Napa Valley, an area idealized as the epicenter of great wines and foods and a cultural tourist destination. But the romanticized accounts you find about it and its denizens is not what you'll encounter in James Conaway's candid book. Napa at Last Light exposes the often shadowy side of the latter days of Napa Valleymarked by complex personal relationships, immense profits, passionate beliefs, and sometimes desperate struggles to prevail. In the balance hang fortunes and personal relationships made through hard work and, in too many cases, manipulation of laws, people, and institutions. Napans who grew up trusting in the beneficence of the "vintner" class now confront in the twenty-first century multinational corporations and their allies who have stealthily subsumed the old family landmarks and abandoned the once glorious conviction that agriculture is the highest and best use of the land. Inherent in that conviction is the sanctity of the place, threatened now by a relentless drive for profits at the expense of land, water, and even life." --Book jacket.
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Napa Valley (Calif.) -- History -- 21st century.
Napa Valley (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Wine and wine making -- California -- Napa Valley -- History -- 21st century.
Wine and wine making -- Social aspects -- California -- Napa Valley.
Wine industry -- California -- Napa Valley -- History -- 21st century.
Wine industry -- Social aspects -- California -- Napa Valley.
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Conaway, J. (2018). Napa at last light: America's Eden in an age of calamity. New York, Simon and Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Conaway, James. 2018. Napa At Last Light: America's Eden in an Age of Calamity. New York, Simon and Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Conaway, James, Napa At Last Light: America's Eden in an Age of Calamity. New York, Simon and Schuster, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Conaway, James. Napa At Last Light: America's Eden in an Age of Calamity. New York, Simon and Schuster, 2018.
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505 | 0 | |a I. This earth is theirs: Master and slave ; White elephants ; The legacy thing -- II. Carrying the defect: Interlude: The velvet rope ; American first-growth ; Hands across the sea ; Orwell's plow -- III. Village and vine: Interlude: Uber ; Bubbly ; Our town ; Alive on arrival -- IV. On Howell Mountain: Interlude: The sanctity of stuff ; Waiting for fire ; Wildlake ; The death of shame -- V. Capell Creek: Interlude: Arise ; The riddled rabbit ; The grandmother tree ; Enocracy -- VI. Water into wine: Interlude: The drip ; The Rutheford Dust Society ; Fifty feet from forever ; Chinatown -- VII. Life in the Anthropocene: Interlude: The plea ; Voices ; 2050 ; Jefferson's ghost ; Wildlake revisited. | |
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