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The Death of an Heir
Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty
by Philip Jett
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In the 1950s and 60s, the Coors dynasty reigned over Golden, Colorado, seemingly invincible. When rumblings about labor unions threatened to destabilize the family's brewery, Adolph Coors, Jr., the septuagenarian president of the company, drew a hard line, refusing to budge. They had worked hard for what they had, and no one had a right to take it from them. What they'd soon realize was that they had more to lose than they could have imagined.
On the morning of Tuesday, February 9, 1960, Adolph "Ad" Coors III, the 44-year-old CEO of the multimillion-dollar Colorado beer empire, stepped into his car and headed for the brewery twelve miles away. At a bridge he stopped to help a man in a yellow Mercury sedan. On the back seat lay handcuffs and leg irons. The glove box held a ransom note ready to be mailed. His coat pocket shielded a loaded pistol.
What happened next set off the largest US manhunt since the Lindbergh kidnapping. State and local authorities, along with the FBI personally spearheaded by its director J. Edgar Hoover, burst into action attempting to locate Ad and his kidnapper. The dragnet spanned a continent. All the while, Ad's grief-stricken wife and children waited, tormented by the unrelenting silence. The Death of an Heir reveals the true story behind the tragic murder of Colorado's favorite son.
"A suspenseful true-crime narrative that reads like an edge-of-the-seat detective story." —Booklist
"A compassionate appraisal of the tragedy that shattered the family of Adolph (Ad) Coors III." —The New York Times Book Review
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- ISBN: 9781250111821
- File size: 13063 KB
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- ISBN: 9781250111821
- File size: 13240 KB
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- English
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August 1, 2017
Founded by German immigrants Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler in 1873, the Golden, Colorado, based Coors brewery is still the largest of its kind in the world. Yet few of the popular pilsner beer's millions of consumers are probably aware today that in 1960 the kidnapping of Adolph's grandson, Adolph Ad Herman Joseph Coors III, an avid sportsman and father of four, set off one of the biggest manhunts in American criminal history. Jett, a former corporate attorney, brings this sad chapter in the Coors family archives to vivid life here, complete with crackling dialogue and a colorful cast of real-life characters, including the kidnapper himself, the surprisingly well-educated career thief, Joseph Corbett Jr. Reveling in the case's details, Jett describes how Ad went missing for months while his grandfather enlisted FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's help and the family anxiously waited for news. The author puts his legal experience to good use with behind-the-scenes insights into investigative legwork while crafting a suspenseful true-crime narrative that reads like an edge-of-the-seat detective story.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
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