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American Hiro - The Adventures of Benihana's Rocky Aoki and How He Built a Legacy (Paperback)
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American Hiro - The Adventures of Benihana's Rocky Aoki and How He Built a Legacy (Paperback)
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Loot Price R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
You Save R76 (16%)
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"Traveling the world with my father, watching him interact with
people, famous and ordinary, observing up close his balls-out sense
of adventure, and having a larger-than-life personality to live up
to had a profound effect on me and the formation of my character."
-From the foreword by Steve Aoki, Grammy-nominated producer and
Billboard award-winning DJ Hiroaki "Rocky" Aoki was a man who
succeeded in everything he pursued. From world-class wrestling,
ballooning, underwater exploration, and car and boat racing to
founding Benihana, Rocky's passion for life infected all around him
and accelerated the exchange of Japanese culture and cuisine with
America. Rocky's rags to riches story, from dishwasher and busboy
to owner of a multi-million-dollar restaurant empire, is a wild
American dream realized unlike any other. Running and expanding the
business would be all-consuming for most people-not to mention
battling the perception of otherness-but Rocky would not be
deterred. His determination for the business rivaled the drive he
demonstrated in his other interests, some of which almost killed
him. American Hiro by Jack McCallum, who had full access to Rocky
Aoki and those in his enterprises, provides the only full inside
account of one of the most famous symbols of cultural assimilation
and capitalistic zeal in modern US history-a champion in business,
sports, and life.
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