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Chocolate Wars
- The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers
- Narrated by: Deborah Cadbury
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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With a cast of characters that wouldnt be out of place in a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties, through the prism of the Cadburys. Chocolate was consumed unrefined and unprocessed as a rather bitter, fatty drink for the wealthy elite until the late 19th century, when the Swiss discovered a way to blend it with milk and unleashed a product that would conquer every market in the world.
Thereafter, one of the great global business rivalries unfolded as each chocolate maker attempted to dominate its domestic market and innovate new recipes for chocolate that would set it apart from its rivals. The contest was full of dramatic contradictions: The Cadburys were austere Quakers who found themselves making millions from an indulgent product; Kitty Hershey could hardly have been more flamboyant yet her husband was moved by the Cadburys tradition of philanthropy. Each was a product of their unique time and place yet they shared one thing: they want to make the best chocolate in the world.
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The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet. Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings these men and their times to life. The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how these four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation that could not have been imagined earlier.
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Good book wrong title
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Black Titan
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A.G. Gaston, the poor grandson of slaves, was born in the Deep South in 1892. Over the course of his extraordinary life, he amassed a fortune of over $130 million and a vast business empire. The story of his remarkable life is written with eloquence and grace by his niece, an Emmy¿ Award-winning journalist and her daughter, who holds degrees from Yale and Harvard.
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Black Gold = Standing Ovation
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Sometimes achieving big things requires the ability to think small. This simple concept was the driving force that propelled the Volkswagen Beetle to become an avatar of American-style freedom, a household brand, and a global icon. The VW Bug inspired the ad men of Madison Avenue, beguiled Woodstock Nation, and has recently been re-imagined for the hipster generation. And while today it is surely one of the most recognizable cars in the world, few of us know the compelling details of this car’s story.
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book is a history lesson
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Who Built That
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Firebrand conservative columnist, commentator, Internet entrepreneur, and number-one New York Times best-selling author Michelle Malkin tells the fascinating, little-known stories of the inventors who have contributed to American exceptionalism and technological progress.
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Marvelous
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Breaking Rockefeller
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Marcus Samuel, Jr., is an unorthodox Jewish merchant trader. Henri Deterding is a take-no-prisoners oilman. In 1889 John D. Rockefeller is at the peak of his power. Having annihilated all competition and possessing near-total domination of the market, even the US government is wary of challenging the great "anaconda" of Standard Oil. The Standard never loses - that is, until Samuel and Deterding team up to form Royal Dutch Shell.
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Tale of business, cultures, dances as it teaches
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A Man and His Mountain
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the story of the self-made billionaire who built the Kendall-Jackson empire from nothing into the biggest-selling brand of premium wines in the U.S. Jess Stonestreet Jackson was one of a small band of pioneering entrepreneurs who put California's wine country on the map. His life story is a compelling slice of history, daring, innovation, feuds, intrigue, talent, mystique, contrarianism, and luck, offering a unique window on the elegant, adventurous, and cut-throat worlds of Jackson's two passions: wine and horseracing.
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Required listening for any wine maker
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The Widow Clicquot
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In The Widow Clicquot, Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life for the first time the fascinating woman behind the iconic yellow label: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin. A young witness to the dramatic events of the French Revolution and a new widow during the chaotic years of the Napoleonic Wars, Barbe-Nicole defied convention by assuming---after her husband's death---the reins of the fledgling wine business they had nurtured.
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A painful listen
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Fast Food Nation
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To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Fast Food Nation is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats.
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Uncritical alarmist rant
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Americana
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From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a 400-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things - the inventions, techniques, and industries that drove American history forward: from the telegraph, the railroad, guns, radio, and banking, to flight, suburbia, and sneakers, culminating with the Internet and mobile technology at the turn of the 21st century.
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Excellent history!
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Boom, Bust, Exodus
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In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for decades. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to Reynosa, Mexico, where workers sometimes spent 13-hour days assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour.
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A Story I thought I Knew
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Tesla vs Edison
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Human history has seen many surprising and profound turning points. The ways that humans learned to use raw materials to create activity and resources set the stage for the most compelling and life-altering phase of the modern era, the Industrial Revolution. Born during this time on different continents but connected by similar interests, two men indelibly marked their generation and those that followed with their genius and foresight. This audiobook covers the war of currents and the individual lives of Tesla and Edison.
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Arduous
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- Christine A. Haimann
- 09-13-11
Great book..... well worth it! Really well done
This is a fabulous book and well worth the listen to.... did not want it to end. Deborah Cadbury does a great job on the history of her family from the first days of experimenting with cocoa and then chocolate production and brings it right through to the modern day until they were bouht out by Nestle (the bad guys.!) This book has elements of history, science, technology, business, marketing, and religious history (Quaker history) all very well woven together. It really shows how the ethics in business nowadays has gone downhill and bows only to the bottom line in profits and does not take into account workers at all. Deborah Cadbury does a grea job in narration, I don't always like a woman narrating but the softness of her voice and the English accent is not too pronounced (excuse the pun). This is the best book I have read (you know what I mean) in a long time and I would highly recommend it to any ex-pat like myself as we have grown up with the brands she discusses with their history and development. There is even significant discussion of the development of the American chocolate market of Hershey's and Mars so very, very pertinent. Super Work!
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- Gil
- 03-03-13
History of chocolate and so much more
Would you listen to Chocolate Wars again? Why?
I have listened to this book more then any other book in my life. I am a chocolate lover and history buff and this book has so much to it and all told from and by a Cadbury. Deborah Cadbury did such an amazing job on this book. No only will it give you the history of chocolate from the start of cadbury it brings you right up to date to when cadury was sold to Kraft. So much history and such a well thought out book.
Who was your favorite character and why?
all of them as this is a history of the chocolate world and the industry so many of us love.
What does Deborah Cadbury bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Yes, because unlike so many other audible books this one was written and is being told you by a Cadbury. Deborah also has an amazing voice and tells you not only her families history but her countries history from the start of the cocoa bean in the UK to the land of chocolate in Swiss and across the Pond to chocolate town and the from Chicago to NJ and the Mars family to the company that would take her families business away Kraft.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Chocolate wars history of an Industry
Any additional comments?
Even for some strange reason your not a chocolate lover but want to know some if the vast history of the UK or the Mars family or Milton Hershey or even Industry as a whole you will love this book. Plus Deborah has an amazing British Voice with such passion on this subject you will love this book. This is my go to book when I am in between things to listen to. Just love it
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- Nettie Atkisson
- 09-23-20
Needed an Editor and not based in reality at all times
A lot of good information but meandered from topic to topic and was hard to follow. I had to rewind a lot so it took me 15 months to get through this book.
Ms. Cadbury years for a time when the titans of industry w we’re not solely concerned about profits for their company. Her grandparents might have been that way but caring about profits is not a modern day idea. Ask the slaves in the Roman Empire . What about the enslaved people in the US and Britain. Thankfully the Quakers were ahead on this but examples of profits over people is not a new modern idea. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Frick, Vanderbilt and more.
Great info but hard to follow and unbearable at times that the Cadbury family was so much better and mor moral than anybody else in the business world. I love the Quakers but damn Deborah but this is spread too thick
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- Jan B
- 11-07-21
Light on the War
Mostly Cadbury details. The Cadbury family story began in the 1600’s, which was totally unnecessary. The Mars/Hershey war was more of a side note. An entire chapter was given to the sake of Cadbury to Kraft
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- Kim
- 11-25-10
Highly recommended!
I thought this book was very well written. The story is absorbing from start to finish. It is not so much about chocolate as it was about the Quaker business ways. I think after reading this most people would wish they worked for Cadbury's in their "Utopia" called "Bourneville". I grew up near Hershey, PA and Milton S. Hershey built the town on the Cadbury model.
After reading this I must say how sad the sale to Kraft actually is.
I highly recommend this read, chocaholic or not.
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- Kim M Clapper
- 07-14-19
Quaker Capitalism
we thoroughly enjoyed this audio book as we drove across the country. it was interesting ng to learn the history and focus of Quaker Capitalism where doing ng good is good for business. Hopefully it is not a bygone era.
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- Roy
- 01-24-11
A Sweet Read
Cadbury provides listeners here a view of the history of and competition between Cadbury, Mars, Hershey, and Nestlé - hence the "Chocolate Wars." Covering about 150 years of history, Cadburry engages the listener in stories, analysis, and presentation of historical context surrounding the chocolate confection industry. I approached this book to learn about the industry and I certainly found it a sweet read. Most interesting to me were sections on the work of both Cadbury and Hershey in preparing and providing for their employees. Sections dealing with Cadbury and the slave trade were revealing as were sections detailing how the Quaker Religion influenced Cadbury and the family as they adapted to the industrial age. This is an interesting book worthy of every listener's time. The reading of Deborah Cadbury is excellent.
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- Derpus McDerp
- 05-20-22
Awful narration - lip smacking and swallowing ugh
Great book but god they need to redo the recording. Absolutely terrible - breathing into the mic, lip smacking, swallowing sounds - gross. I expect better.
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- J. A. Rake
- 08-29-19
A fascinating look at candy as commerce
We thoroughly enjoyed this book which we read as an audio book on a cross-country trip. The battles between competing, largely Quaker companies in Britain was fascinating. It got a little tedious as th story was brought into the modern, more capitalist era.
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- s. lee willson
- 12-17-17
can’t get over the narration
i’m sorry, but i’d suggest you read this book. i appreciate its read by its author, but it’s too difficult to follow. should’ve considered a professional.
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