Ebook: For God, country, and Coca-Cola: the definitive history of the great American soft drink and the company that makes it

Now fully updated, the classic account of how a bottle of sweetened caramel-colored soda water became synonymous with American capitalism.;Table of Contents; Preface; Prologue: A Parable (January 1, 1985); PART I: IN THE BEGINNING (1886-1899); 1. Time Capsule: The Golden Age of Quackery; 2. What Sigmund Freud, Pope Leo, and John Pemberton Had in Common; 3. The Tangled Chain of Title; 4. Asa Candler: His Triumphs and Headaches; 5. Bottle It: The World's Stupidest, Smartest Contract; PART II: HERETICS AND TRUE BELIEVERS (1900-1922); 6. Success Under Siege; 7. Dr. Wiley Weighs In; 8. The Sinister Syndicate; 9. Coca-Cola's Civil War; PART III: THE GOLDEN AGE (1923-1949); 10. Robert W. Woodruff: The Boss Takes the Helm.