NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Featured in the PBS documentaryThe Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound

The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations from the 1880s all the way through World War II and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the founding father of the nation s service industry, whose remarkable family business civilized the West and introduced America to...