The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
This is a story about the Seabrooks and the frozen vegetable empire they created in Southern New Jersey, Seabrook Farms. It chronicles the ingenuity and ambition that built the industrial farm and its brand, as well as the brutality and graft required to keep it going, and the tragic way that the family business ended.
“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…
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