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Legacy - One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World (Hardcover)
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Legacy - One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World (Hardcover)
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'I was riveted: this is a fascinating social history.' NIGELLA
LAWSON 'Five stars... history on a scale at once intimate and
grand.' TELEGRAPH 'A magnificent book... endlessly fascinating.'
JEWISH CHRONICLE 'How the Lyons company took on the world... a
satisfying slab of dynastic history.' GUARDIAN, 'Book of the Day'
'Written with love and imagination... a masterclass in historical
empathy.' TLS 'Enthralling... fascinating.' OBSERVER 'Rich...
Fascinating... Harding is to be congratulated on this panoramic
history.' EVENING STANDARD 'Endlessly fascinating and hard to put
down... this is a tour de force.' JULIA NEUBERGER A panoramic new
history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one
extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking company. In the early
1800s, Lehmann Gluckstein and his family escaped the pogroms of
Eastern Europe and made their way to Whitechapel in London's East
End. There, starting with nothing, they worked tirelessly to pull
themselves out of poverty, creating a small tobacco factory that
grew to become the largest catering company in the world: J. Lyons.
For over a century, Lyons was on every high street, in every home,
in every coffee and teacup. It was an ascent from rags to riches in
the face of many obstacles: poverty, hatred and anti-Semitism stood
between this poor immigrant family and the British Dream. Legacy
charts the rise and fall of one of the most influential dynasties
in British history through the lives of five astonishing
generations. Both sweeping and intimate, it is a story of sacrifice
and selflessness, betrayal and personal tragedy, and Empire and its
cost. It is also an illuminating new exploration of Britain and its
place in the world, from the bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf
and The House by the Lake. ___________________________ 'Legacy is
the biography of the extraordinary family who put the respectable
teashop on the corner, the hamburger on the high street, plus the
cuppa and Ready Brek on your breakfast table. Thomas Harding is a
researcher of the first rank. Nobody quite stirs the soup of
historical detail like Harding.' EXPRESS 'An affectionate family
history, deftly sandwiched in the rise and fall of empires, two
world wars, and two centuries of social and political change.'
ECONOMIST 'An affectionate and colourful family portrait.'
FINANCIAL TIMES 'This extraordinarily rich and meticulously
researched history of modern Britain is a tour de force. [...] It's
a paen to the immigrant contribution to our nation.' BOOKSELLER 'I
absolutely love this book.' TRACY ANN OBERMAN 'Absolutely
fascinating.' GILES COREN
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