Willard Garvey: An Epic Life

by Maura McEnaney

Book Overview

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maura McEnaney's fascinating and wide-ranging biography of businessman and entrepreneur Willard Garvey is, in many ways, a history of 20th-century America itself. Having come of age during the Dust Bowl, Garvey rode the rails during the height of the Great Depression to work in the California orchards made famous by The Grapes of Wrath. He sailed the Queen Mary to fight in World War II, and was one of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0988655616
• ISBN13: 9780988655614
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Liberty Tree Press
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"