Champagne Charlie tells the history of champagne and the thrilling tale of how the go-to celebratory drink of our time made its way to the United States, thanks to the controversial figure of Charles “Champagne Charlie” Heidsieck.
Champagne Charlie tells the history of champagne and the thrilling tale of how the go-to celebratory drink of our time made its way to the United States, thanks to the controversial figure of Charles “Champagne Charlie” Heidsieck.
Don and Petie Kladstrup are former journalists and now live in Paris. Don was a television news correspondent for CBS and ABC News from 1978 through 1994 and is the winner of three Emmys, two Dupont-Columbia Awards (Gold Baton), the Robert F. Kennedy award for humanitarian journalism, several Overseas Press Club awards, and a National Association of Black Journalists award. Petie was a reporter for several midwestern newspapers, assistant to the U.S. ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, and is the winner of an Overseas Press Club award. They are the coauthors of Wine and War: The French, the Nazis and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure and Champagne: How the World’s Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed over War and Hard Times.
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List of Illustrations Introduction 1. The First Sip 2. Young Charles 3. Discovery of the New World 4. Reading the Stars 5. The Panic 6. The Lion of New York 7. Southern Comfort 8. “It’s War” 9. The Beast 10. Into the Jaws 11. “We Are Not in Venice” 12. The Homecoming 13. The Man Who Never Forgot 14. “War Seems to Follow Me” 15. The Denver Miracle Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Introduction 1. The First Sip 2. Young Charles 3. Discovery of the New World 4. Reading the Stars 5. The Panic 6. The Lion of New York 7. Southern Comfort 8. “It’s War” 9. The Beast 10. Into the Jaws 11. “We Are Not in Venice” 12. The Homecoming 13. The Man Who Never Forgot 14. “War Seems to Follow Me” 15. The Denver Miracle Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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