The head of the Guinness family tells the dramatic true story of how his ancestors created the largest brewery in the world.Growing up at Farmleigh, the country house outside Dublin, Arthur Edward Guinness Ned for short was fascinated by the secrets and legends that surrounded the early generations of his famous family of brewers.Against the backdrop of epic and convulsive times in Ireland and Britain, he explores the struggles and passions of his ancestors, who went from obscurity in Kildare to the pinnacle of Irish and British society.Each generation confronted new challenges until the dramatic events when the authors greatgreatgrandfather bought out his glamorous older brother and floated Guinness on the stock exchange. Overnight Edward Cecil Guinness became Irelands richest man.This is a tale in which brewing genius, sibling rivalry, bounteous philanthropy and astonishing social mobility are interwoven with historic national events, including the Act of Union, Catholic Emancipation, the Famine, the Home Rule movement, the Dublin Lockout and ultimately Irish independence. It is the inside story, as told by Ned Guinness. "This book is far more than an account of the commercial success of Guinness its also a love letter to the city which produced it." The Irish Independent "The definitive history of the Guinness brewing dynasty" The Irish Independent "A fantastic book" RTE The Business

Binding: Hardcover;192 pages; Publisher: Abrams and Chronicle Books IWUK; Classification: BGB; Weight: 532 g; Dimensions: 146 x 225 x 27

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