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OverviewThe Bergdolls were a German American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century. Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Grover, the most notorious, is celebrated for his daring record-setting flights in a Wright Brothers airplane. Erwin drives a powerful Benz to win a prestigious motor car race, the equivalent of the Daytona 500. Then, just as Grover is trying to buy a bigger plane to set more records and attempt to fly to Europe a decade before Lindbergh, they're snared by vengeful local military draft officials. Running and hiding from their war duty, the fugitives are so reviled by nationalistic Americans that two older brothers change their names to avoid infamy. Eluding capture for years with financial help from their wealthy German Mutter, the Bergdoll boys are entangled with kidnapping and murder, federal agents and bounty hunters, Nazis, and Congressional investigators, and an incredible story of release and escape from an Army jail with bribery, all the way up to the White House to search for buried gold. Hounded by the unsympathetic press and public, and congress, the Bergdoll fortune is confiscated by the federal government. Their doting mother gets into pistol shootouts with agents trying to search their mansions and country estates. Grover remains one step ahead of bungling lawmen by hiding in Germany and secretly traveling into and out of America on fake passports and producing kinderreiche Familie with his attractive German wife. AUTHOR: Tim Lake has enjoyed a long career as a newspaper, radio, and television journalist with prominent TV News anchor positions in Philadelphia, Houston, Charleston, South Carolina, and Albany, New York. He has reported on major stories throughout the southern United States, Texas, Washington, the Mid-Atlantic, and New York. Most recently, he was the anchor and host of Empire State Weekly, a political talk show airing on ten TV stations in New York State. An accomplished nonfiction author, his third book, Hang on and Fly, following historical sketch publications Henderson Harbor and Association Island, examines the emotional drama behind a year of disastrous plane crashes among the first budget airlines of North America. 90 photographs Full Product DetailsAuthor: Timothy W Lake , Louis Erwin BergdollPublisher: Casemate Publishers Imprint: Casemate Publishers ISBN: 9781955041089ISBN 10: 1955041083 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 15 August 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPrologue 1) Pot-O-Gold 2) Bergdoll Beer 3) Gun-Toting, Check-Writing Emma 4) Race Cars and Millions 5) Airplanes and Millions 6) Philadelphia Flyer 7) Bergdoll’s War 8) Next Man in Line 9) Another Pot-O-Gold 10) Escape to Germany 11) Kidnapping and Murder 12) Bertha Emilie Lydia Helene Franck Bergdoll 13) The Wright B Flyer 14) A Man Without a Country 15) Final Flight Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Bibliography Illustration Credits Other Books by Tim LakeReviews""[A] fascinating biography of a German American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century and the two sons who went to extraordinary lengths to avoid military service in World War I...""-- ""Midwest Book Review"" """[A] fascinating biography of a German American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century and the two sons who went to extraordinary lengths to avoid military service in World War I...""-- ""Midwest Book Review""" Author InformationTim Lake has enjoyed a long career as a newspaper, radio, and television journalist with prominent TV News anchor positions in Philadelphia, Houston, Charleston, South Carolina, and Albany, New York. He has reported on major stories throughout the southern United States, Texas, Washington, the Mid-Atlantic, and New York. Most recently, he was the anchor and host of Empire State Weekly, a political talk show airing on ten TV stations in New York State. An accomplished nonfiction author, his third book, Hang on and Fly, following historical sketch publications Henderson Harbor and Association Island, examines the emotional drama behind a year of disastrous plane crashes among the first budget airlines of North America. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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