Colonel Sanders and the American Dream

by Josh Ozersky

Book Overview

From Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars' worth of products. But only one of them was ever a real person-Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC. From a 1930s roadside caf in Corbin, Kentucky, Harland Sanders launched a fried chicken business that now circles the globe, serving "finger lickin' good" chicken to more than twelve million people every day. But to get...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147731475X
• ISBN13: 9781477314753
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"