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Author Markel, Howard, author.

Title The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek / Howard Markel.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [2017]
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY KELLOGG    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. KELLOGG, J.    Storage
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B KELLOGGS    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO KELLOGG FAMILY    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B KELLOGG    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult Department  B KELLOGGS, JOHN HARVEY AND W.K.(WILL KEITH)    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO KELLOGG    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B KELLOGG    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Whiton Branch - Non Fiction  B KELLOGG BROTHERS    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  977.422 MAR    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xxix, 506 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [393]-480) and index.
Contents Introduction : The Cain and Abel of America's heartland -- Part I. "Michigan fever". "Go west, young man" -- The chosen one -- New brooms sweep clean -- Long-distance learning -- Part II. An empire of wellness. Building the San -- "What's more American than corn flakes?" -- "Fire!" ... and cease-fire -- The new San -- Part III. Manufacturing health. The San's operations -- A "university of health" -- Will's place -- Part IV. Battles of old age. The prison of resentment -- The doctor's crusade against race degeneracy -- A full plate -- "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" -- The final score.
Summary Traces the story of brothers Harvey and Will Kellogg, one of whom became a revered doctor and founder of the famous Battle Creek Sanitarium, the other of whom founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which eventually became General Mills.
Subject Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943.
Kellogg, W. K. (Will Keith), 1860-1951.
Battle Creek Sanitarium (Battle Creek, Mich.) -- History.
Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company -- History.
Kellogg Company -- History.
Physicians -- Michigan -- Biography.
Industrialists -- Michigan -- Biography.
Battle Creek (Mich.) -- Biography.
Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943. (OCoLC)fst00018677
Kellogg, W. K. (Will Keith), 1860-1951. (OCoLC)fst00127623
Battle Creek Sanitarium (Battle Creek, Mich.) (OCoLC)fst01801976
Kellogg Company. (OCoLC)fst00539185
Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company. (OCoLC)fst00654636
Industrialists. (OCoLC)fst00971815
Physicians. (OCoLC)fst01062841
Michigan. (OCoLC)fst01208387
Michigan -- Battle Creek. (OCoLC)fst01218610
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: Markel, Howard. Kelloggs. First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, [2017] 9780307948373 (DLC) 2016054724
ISBN 9780307907271 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0307907279 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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