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Conaway, James, author.

Napa at last light : America's Eden in an age of calamity / James Conaway.

New York : Simon and Schuster, [2018]

©2018

xxvi, 308 pages ; 1 map ; 24 cm

Exposes the often shadowy side of the winemaking industry in Napa Valley, where multinational corporations have subsumed old family vineyards and abandoned the agricultural traditions of the region.

Wine and wine making -- California -- Napa Valley -- History -- 21st century.

Wine and wine making -- Social aspects -- California -- Napa Valley.

Wine industry -- California -- Napa Valley -- History -- 21st century.

Wine industry -- Social aspects -- California -- Napa Valley.

Napa Valley (Calif.) -- History -- 21st century.

Napa Valley (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Napa Valley (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.

America's Eden in an age of calamity

Includes index.

I. This earth is theirs: Master and slave ; White elephants ; The legacy thing -- II. Carrying the defect: Interlude: The velvet rope ; American first-growth ; Hands across the sea ; Orwell's plow -- III. Village and vine: Interlude: Uber ; Bubbly ; Our town ; Alive on arrival -- IV. On Howell Mountain: Interlude: The sanctity of stuff ; Waiting for fire ; Wildlake ; The death of shame -- V. Capell Creek: Interlude: Arise ; The riddled rabbit ; The grandmother tree ; Enocracy -- VI. Water into wine: Interlude: The drip ; The Rutheford Dust Society ; Fifty feet from forever ; Chinatown -- VII. Life in the Anthropocene: Interlude: The plea ; Voices ; 2050 ; Jefferson's ghost ; Wildlake revisited.

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