The Bergdoll Boys: America's Most Notorious Millionaire Draft Dodgers Tapa dura - 2023

Brookline Books. Used - Like New. 2023. hardcover. Fine.

Hardcover in dust jacket - text appears clean and unmarked, binding is square and tight, covers are as new but for very light head and tail wear; DJ has very light edge wear -- Dependable seller since 1994, daily shipping with tracking from our brick and mortar store in Madison, Wisconsin.

Havertown; Oxford: Casemate Publishers, 2023. Hardcover. Fine Condition. 22.9 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm. Dust jacket is fully intact. Internally, clean and fresh, with unmarked and uncreased pages. Overall, very sound and presentable. Publisher's note: "A biography of a German American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century. Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Grover, the most notorious, is celebrated for his daring record-setting flights in a Wright Brothers airplane. Erwin drives a powerful Benz to win a prestigious motor car race, the equivalent of the Daytona 500. Then, just as Grover is trying to buy a bigger plane to set more records and attempt to fly to Europe a decade before Lindbergh, they're snared by vengeful local military draft officials. Running and hiding from their war… Leer más

Hardback. New. Celebrities of their day, the Bergdolls were a German-American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century. This is the story of how dodging the U.S. draft led to their spiral into notoriety, set against the backdrop of nationalist propaganda in World War I.

Brookline Books, 2023. Hardcover. New. 384 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.69 inches.

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hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.