'A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the story of the self-made billionaire who built the Kendall-Jackson empire from nothing into the biggest selling brand of premium wines in the U.S.
Jess Stonestreet Jackson was one of a small band of pioneeringentrepreneurs who put California's wine country on the map. His life story is a compelling slice of history, daring, innovation,
feuds, intrigue, talent, mystique, contrarianism, and luck, offering a unique window on the elegant, adventurous, and cut-throat worlds of Jackson's two passions: wine and horseracing. Time
after time his decisions would be ignored, derided, then finally envied and imitated, as whole industries watched him become a billionaire and tried to keep up. He reinvented himself at
mid-life, and became founder and CEO of Kendall-Jackson. The empire he constructed endures and thrives even after his death in 2011. In A Man and His Mountain, Edward Humes brings us the
no-holds barred tale of the brilliant, infuriating, successful man who seemed to win more than his share by staying far ahead of the pack'--
