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    LITERATURE

    Linda Himelstein - The King of Vodka, The Story of Peter Smirnoff and the Upheaval of an Empire

    Presented by Peninsula Jewish Community Center at Peninsula Jewish Community Center

    December 6, 2010

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    Linda Himelstein - The King of Vodka, The Story of Peter Smirnoff and the Upheaval of an Empire
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    Hear former Wall Street Journal reporter and author, Linda Himelstein, who became enamored of the Smirnoff family's compelling story and left her position to write their fascinating and wrenching tale. The book was named by Business Week as one of the 10 best books of 2009. In this sweeping history of vodka scion Pyotr Smirnov and his family, distinguished journalist Linda Himelstein plumbs a great riddle of Russian history through the story...

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    Hear former Wall Street Journal reporter and author, Linda Himelstein, who became enamored of the Smirnoff family's compelling story and left her position to write their fascinating and wrenching tale. The book was named by Business Week as one of the 10 best books of 2009. In this sweeping history of vodka scion Pyotr Smirnov and his family, distinguished journalist Linda Himelstein plumbs a great riddle of Russian history through the story of a humble serf who rose to create one of the most celebrated business empires the world has ever known. At the center of this vivid narrative, Pyotr Smirnov comes to life as a hero of wonderful complexity—a man of intense ambition and uncanny business sense, a patriarch of a family that would help define Russian society and suffer from the Revolution's aftermath, and a loyalist to a nation that would one day honor him as a treasure of the state.


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    800 Foster City Boulevard
    Foster City, CA 94404

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