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The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire

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J.G. Boswell is the biggest farmer in The united states. During the last fifty years he has built a secret empire whilst thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate “factory in the fields.” Now eighty years old, with an almost pathological bent toward privacy, Boswell has spent the past few years confiding some of the great stories of the American West to Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman. The King of California is the prior to now untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s,drained one of The united states ‘s biggest lakes in an act of implausible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire on this planet. Indeed, the sophistication of Boswell ‘s agricultural operation -from lab to field to gin – is unrivaled anywhere.

A lot more than a business story, it is a sweeping social history that details the saga of cotton growers who were chased from the South by the boll weevil and brought their black farmhands to California. This is a gripping read with cameos by a cast of famous characters, from Cecil B. DeMille to Cesar Chavez.

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