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Secret Formula

The Inside Story of How Coca-Cola Became the Best-Known Brand in the World

Frederick Allen

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English
Open Road Media
27 October 2015
"A ""highly entertaining history [of] global hustling, cola wars and the marketing savvy that carved a niche for Coke in the American social psyche"" (Publishers Weekly).

Secret Formula follows the colorful characters who turned a relic from the patent medicine era into a company worth $80 billion. Award-winning reporter Frederick Allen's engaging account begins with Asa Candler, a nineteenth-century pharmacist in Atlanta who secured the rights to the original Coca-Cola formula and then struggled to get the cocaine out of the recipe. After many tweaks, he finally succeeded in turning a backroom belly-wash into a thriving enterprise.

In 1919, an aggressive banker named Ernest Woodruff leveraged a high-risk buyout of the Candlers and installed his son at the helm of the company. Robert Woodruff spent the next six decades guiding Coca-Cola with a single-minded determination that turned the soft drink into a part of the landscape and social fabric of America. Written with unprecedented access to Coca-Cola's archives, as well as the inner circle and private papers of Woodruff, Allen's captivating business biography stands as the definitive account of what it took to build America's most iconic company and one of the world's greatest business success stories."

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Imprint:   Open Road Media
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 133mm,  Spine: 29mm
Weight:   576g
ISBN:   9781504019859
ISBN 10:   1504019857
Pages:   510
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Dedication Contents Introduction: Red Scare One: Stirrings Two: Dope Three: Dobbs Four: Bottled-Up Anger Five: “Get Your Readiness” Six: Short Sales Seven: Pepsi Eight: War Nine: Black and White Ten: Politics Eleven: “Octogenarians!” Twelve: New Coke Image Gallery Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments About the Author

Frederick Allen was an award-winning reporter and political columnist with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1972 to 1987, after which he joined CNN as a chief analyst and commentator covering the 1988 presidential election. His essays for the program Inside Politics earned CNN a CableACE Award, and Allen was called the “best political analyst” by the editors of the Hotline. Allen is the author of three books, including his history of the Coca-Cola Company, Secret Formula; Atlanta Rising, a history of modern Atlanta; and A Decent, Orderly Lynching, an account of the vigilantes of Montana. He was honored by the Western History Association with the inaugural Michael P. Malone Award for his research into vigilante symbolism, and is currently working on a book about Theodore Roosevelt. Allen graduated from Phillips Academy (Andover) and earned a BA in journalism from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He and his wife, Linda, live in Atlanta, Georgia, and Big Sky, Montana.

Reviews for Secret Formula: The Inside Story of How Coca-Cola Became the Best-Known Brand in the World

A clear, convincing, anecdotal, often fascinating portrayal not just of Coca-Cola s corporate brilliance, but of how it inveighed its way into the center of American, and world, consciousness. <i>Financial Times</i> [A] highly entertaining history... A juicy look at wheeling-dealing, litigation, global hustling, cola wars and the marketing savvy that carved a niche for Coke in the American social psyche. <i>Publishers Weekly</i> At times the book reads like a Russian novel combined with a thriller. It will appeal to the general reader as well as to students of history. <i>Library Journal</i> Allen seems to have had unprecedented access to company insiders, corporate archives, and private papers, and he uncovers a trove of information about corporate political clout at home and abroad... . Allen successfully contributes to the fascinating lore surrounding this symbol of American culture and enterprise. <i>Booklist</i>


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