Queen Bee: Roxanne Quimby, Burt's Bees, and Her Quest for a New National Park

by Phyllis Austin

Book Overview

How did she navigate the world of venture capitalists and investment bankers to engineer the sale of her company and reap a personal fortune? And what does her subsequent odyssey to buy and donate a new national park in Maine's north woods--thus repaying what she regards as the "harmonic debt to the planet" she incurred by manufacturing beauty products--tell us about America and the American dream? Queen Bee is a fascinating biography of a fascinating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884483800
• ISBN13: 9780884483809
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Tilbury House
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"