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The Bergdoll Boys : America's Most Notorious Millionaire Draft Dodgers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lake, Timothy W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Millionaires--United States.
- Millionaires.
- Reconstruction (1914-1939).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (529 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC, 2023.
- Summary:
- A biography of a German American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century.Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s.
- Contents:
- Cover page
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Louis Erwin Bergdoll
- Introduction
- Bergdoll Family Tree
- Prologue: A Milk Can Full of Gold
- 1 Bergdoll Beer
- 2 Emma: The Bergdoll Matriarch
- 3 Race Cars and Millions
- 4 Speed Demon Bergdoll
- 5 Airplanes and Millions
- 6 Grover’s Historic Flight
- 7 Clipped Wings
- 8 Insane or Just Crazy
- 9 Bergdoll’s War
- 10 The Bergdoll Casket
- 11 Captured
- 12 A Man without a Country
- 13 Bribe for Gold
- 14 Escape
- 15 Congressional Investigation
- 16 Death of a Bergdoll Fixer
- 17 Kidnap on the Hochzeitsfeier
- 18 Kidnap in das Hotel der Krone
- 19 Bergdollism
- 20 More Gold
- 21 Friedel Schmidt Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-955041-09-1
- OCLC:
- 1402548846
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