Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty with no assets beyond his

with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair

while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable

But the day before their grand adventure

A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees

Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty with no assets beyond his"Having left this material for his writer son, my father must have wanted the story told, even if he couldn't bear to tell it himself." So begins the story of a forgotten American dynasty, a farming family from the bean fields of southern New Jersey who became as wealthy and powerful as aristocrats only to implode in a storm of lies. The patriarch, C. F. Seabrook, was hailed as the "Henry Ford of Agriculture." His son Jack, a keen businessman, was