

Napa at Last Light
America’s Eden in an Age of Calamity
Author: James Conaway
Narrator: Tom Perkins
Unabridged: 10 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 03/06/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, History, Modern History
Synopsis
Napa at Last Light exposes the often shadowy side of the latter days of Napa Valley—marked by complex personal relationships, immense profits, passionate beliefs, and sometimes desperate struggles to prevail. In the balance hang fortunes and personal relationships made through hard work and, in too many cases, manipulation of laws, people, and institutions.
Napans who grew up trusting in the beneficence of the “vintner” class now confront in the twenty-first century multinational corporations and their allies who have stealthily subsumed the old family landmarks and abandoned the once glorious conviction that agriculture is the highest and best use of the land. Inherent in that conviction is the sanctity of the place, threatened now by a relentless drive for profits at the expense of land, water, and even life.