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Magnus Macpherson sails away from the life of a penniless Scottish crofter to realise the ultimate American dream of riches and fame.
Here are the real people and places of a tumultuous century. As he builds his whiskey empire through the wild days of Prohibition, he mixes with larger-than-life underworld figures like Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and Bugs Moran. Then, with growing success and respectabiltiy, he crosses the path of old Joe Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt and other whose names have gone down in history.
Yet Magnus Macpherson's story contains its own tragic irony - for even as he is building his fortune, he is destroying the family that will inherit it.
Hard cover, with dust jacket. Good condition, with just minor signs of wear.