The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
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***2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction***"What's more American than Corn Flakes?" —Bing CrosbyFrom the much admired medical historian (“Markel shows just how compelling the medical history can be”—Andrea Barrett) and author of An Anatomy of Addiction (“Absorbing, vivid”—Sherwin Nuland, The New York Times Book Review, front page)—the story of America’s empire builders: John and Will Kellogg. John Harvey Kellogg was one of America’s most beloved physicians; a best-selling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which revolutionized the mass production of food and what we eat for breakfast. In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of these two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America’s notion of health and wellness from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet. The Kelloggs were of Puritan stock, a family that came to the shores of New England in the mid-seventeenth century, that became one of the biggest in the county, and then renounced it all for the religious calling of Ellen Harmon White, a self-proclaimed prophetess, and James White, whose new Seventh-day Adventist theology was based on Christian principles and sound body, mind, and hygiene rules—Ellen called it “health reform.” The Whites groomed the young John Kellogg for a central role in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and sent him to America’s finest Medical College. Kellogg’s main medical focus—and America’s number one malady: indigestion (Walt Whitman described it as “the great American evil”). Markel gives us the life and times of the Kellogg brothers of Battle Creek: Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his world-famous Battle Creek Sanitarium medical center, spa, and grand hotel attracted thousands actively pursuing health and well-being. Among the guests: Mary Todd Lincoln, Amelia Earhart, Booker T. Washington, Johnny Weissmuller, Dale Carnegie, Sojourner Truth, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and George Bernard Shaw. And the presidents he advised: Taft, Harding, Hoover, and Roosevelt, with first lady Eleanor. The brothers Kellogg experimented on malt, wheat, and corn meal, and, tinkering with special ovens and toasting devices, came up with a ready-to-eat, easily digested cereal they called Corn Flakes. As Markel chronicles the Kelloggs’ fascinating, Magnificent Ambersons–like ascent into the pantheon of American industrialists, we see the vast changes in American social mores that took shape in diet, health, medicine, philanthropy, and food manufacturing during seven decades—changing the lives of millions and helping to shape our industrial age.
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Subjects
Battle Creek (Mich.) -- Biography
Battle Creek Sanitarium (Battle Creek, Mich.) -- History
Biographies
Biography & Autobiography
Business
History
Industrialists
Industrialists -- Michigan -- Biography
Kellogg, John Harvey
Kellogg, John Harvey, -- 1852-1943
Kellogg, W. K
Kellogg, W. K. -- (Will Keith), -- 1860-1951
Kellogg Company -- History
Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company -- History
Medical
Nonfiction
Physicians
Physicians -- Michigan -- Biography
Battle Creek Sanitarium (Battle Creek, Mich.) -- History
Biographies
Biography & Autobiography
Business
History
Industrialists
Industrialists -- Michigan -- Biography
Kellogg, John Harvey
Kellogg, John Harvey, -- 1852-1943
Kellogg, W. K
Kellogg, W. K. -- (Will Keith), -- 1860-1951
Kellogg Company -- History
Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company -- History
Medical
Nonfiction
Physicians
Physicians -- Michigan -- Biography
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9780307907271
9780307907288
9781684413676
9780307907288
9781684413676
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subject_facet | Battle Creek (Mich.) -- Biography Battle Creek Sanitarium (Battle Creek, Mich.) -- History Biographies Industrialists -- Michigan -- Biography Kellogg Company -- History Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company -- History Kellogg, John Harvey, -- 1852-1943 Kellogg, W. K. -- (Will Keith), -- 1860-1951 Physicians -- Michigan -- Biography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | The Kelloggs : The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek [electronic resource] / Howard Markel The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek / Howard Markel The Kelloggs The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | The Kelloggs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Biography & Autobiography Business History Industrialists Kellogg, John Harvey Kellogg, W. K Medical Nonfiction Physicians |