Thursday, Jun 12th , 2025
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Events Rhinebeck
Oblong Books - Rhinebeck
6422 Montgomery Street
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
Oblong Books hosts John Seabrook, author of "The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty," the riveting saga of the Seabrook Family, by one of The New Yorker’s most acclaimed storytellers.
They say behind every great fortune there is a great crime. At Seabrook Farms, the troubling American histories of race, immigration, and exploitation arise like weeds from the soil. Great Migration Black laborers struck against the company for better wages in the 1930s, and Japanese Americans helped found a “global village” on the farm after World War II. Revealing both C. F. and Jack Seabrook’s corruption, "The Spinach King" undermines the “great man” theory of industrial progress. It also shows how American farms evolved from Jeffersonian smallholdings to gigantic agribusinesses, and what such enormous firms do to the families whose fate is bound up in the land. A compulsively readable story of class and privilege, betrayal and revenge three decades in the making "The Spinach King" explores the author’s complicated family legacy and the dark corners of the American Dream.
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