The Kelloggs, Howard Markel
The Kelloggs, Howard Markel
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The Kelloggs
The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek

Author: Howard Markel

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 16 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/08/2018

Synopsis

John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a bestselling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which revolutionized the mass production of food and what we eat for breakfast.

In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of these two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet.

As Markel chronicles the Kelloggs' fascinating, Magnificent Ambersons—like ascent into the pantheon of American industrialists, we see the vast changes in American social mores that took shape in diet, health, medicine, philanthropy, and food manufacturing during seven decades—changing the lives of millions and helping to shape our industrial age.

About Howard Markel

Over the past forty years, Howard Markel has practiced pediatrics and taught medical history at Johns Hopkins and University of Michigan. He is the award-winning author or editor of many books, including his most recent history of DNA, The Secret of Life. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a Guggenheim fellow. His work has appeared in the New York Times and the New Yorker. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maura on October 01, 2017

The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek touches on a lot of different topics that interest me: the history of medicine, Michigan’s past, and the creation and sale of convenience foods in 20th-century America. I found the story at the heart of Howard Markel’s book—that of the brothers Kellogg, who coul......more

Goodreads review by Andie on November 13, 2017

There were two Kellogg brothers of Battle Cree, Michigan. John, the oldest in the family, became a famous physician, championing not onlyplant-based diets and probiotics, but also unfortunate racists theories like eugenics. Will, the younger brother, was neglected as a child and made subservient to h......more

Goodreads review by Carole on September 30, 2017

I was a little disappointed in this book. There is a good story to tell here. W.K. Kellogg's signature facsimile was on every box of corn flakes that most of us ate as children. Yet his older brother, Dr. John Harvey, was perhaps more famous at the time due to his medical theories and practices exec......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on February 18, 2019

Being from Battle Creek and hearing of it’s history from my parents, this book called to me. I have family that worked for Kellogg’s for many years and have fond memories of the sights, sounds, and smells from our once mighty town. The book was written like a thesis paper, almost every detail expose......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on September 21, 2018

I recently joined an established book club and this was the first book for discussion. At first I was daunted by the length, but soon found myself enjoying it. This thoughtful and well-presented history of the Kellogg brothers was extremely well done. The author (a doctor and medical historian) delv......more

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