Join Diesel, A Bookstore on Tuesday October 7th at 6:30 pm as they welcome John Seabrook to the store to discuss and sign "The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty".

“Having left this material for his writer son, my father must have wanted the story told, even if he couldn’t bear to tell it himself.”

So begins the story of a forgotten American dynasty, a farming family from the bean fields of southern New Jersey that became wealthy and powerful aristocrats—only to implode in a storm of lies. The patriarch, C. F. Seabrook, was hailed as the “Henry Ford of Agriculture.” His son Jack, a keen businessman, was poised to take over what Life called “the biggest vegetable factory on earth.” But the carefully cultivated facade—glamorous outings by horse-drawn carriage, hidden wine cellars, and movie star girlfriends—hid dark secrets that led to the implosion of the family business. A compulsively readable story of class and privilege, betrayal and revenge—three decades in the making — The Spinach King explores the author’s complicated family legacy and dark corners of the American Dream.