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Book SynopsisTrade Review"For decades, James Conaway has kept a keen eye on this unusually fecund—and fraught—piece of ground, and has meticulously charted its long, sad decline toward some sort of thematic caricature of itself, a Disney World of the Grape. In this fine book, we see how that decline happened. It’s all here: The titanic egos, the real estate wrangling, the corporate high jinks that, little by little, brought this sun-kissed paradise firmly under the spell of Mammon."
—Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and In the Kingdom of Ice.“This is a stunning and sad look at how an idyllic community became a victim of its own success…fascinating and well-researched.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review“Characters lifted from soap operas, environmental degradation born of hubris, and out-of-balance wines that smack of masstige: James Conway has written a gossipy allegory for our profit-drunk times.”—
John T. Edge,
author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South
