Paradise Valley: From Child Runaway to Black Detroit’s First Beer Success Story - Reuben Ray
Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF نویسندگان: Cyn Hawkins Davis, Cyn Hawkins Davis, Reuben Ray II
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فرمت: Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF تاریخ انتشار نسخه الکترونیکی : October 3, 2026
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لینک: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLWLG8B9
613,000 تومان
زمان تحویل: حداکثر 24 ساعت
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PARADISE VALLEY: From Child Runaway to Black Detroit's First Beer Success StoryHe was nine years old the first time the world took something from him without asking. It would not be the last.This is a true story — and it reads like one of the great American novels, except nobody invented a word of it. Orphaned in Muncie, Indiana, abandoned by his father on the road to Detroit, Reuben Ray raised himself on nerve, pool halls, and a refusal to ever be told no — a climb that took him through a Rochester hotel job he landed on a letter of reference scrawled by Duke Ellington himself, and a love affair with a young dancer named Josephine Baker, years before the world knew her name.By the time he reached Detroit for good, Reuben Ray and his business partners had built something this country had never once let Black men build: the first Black-owned beer distributorship in the United States. From a garage behind a bar, two secondhand milk trucks, and a glass of mixed ale and malt liquor, Paradise Valley Distributors grew into a million-dollar company — anchoring a Detroit neighborhood that rivaled Harlem, where Joe Louis was the favorite son, Paul Robeson took the stage, and a brickmason named Berry Gordy Sr. poured the warehouse docks years before his son would build Motown. They called Reuben Ray Mr. Detroit. He called himself the chosen one.That neighborhood doesn't exist anymore — paved over by the freeway in the 1950s and '60s — and for decades, Reuben Ray's achievement survived only as family memory, because Black-owned businesses of that era were rarely documented the way white-owned ones were. This edition changes that. Built on more than two hundred newly uncovered articles from the Black press of the 1930s through the 1960s, it's not just telling Reuben Ray's story — it's the evidence for it.First told by his son, Reuben Ray II, in his original book Paradise Valley, this expanded edition is co-authored with his niece, Cyn Hawkins Davis, and finally puts Reuben Ray's place in American business history on the record.A sweeping, unforgettable piece of Americana. They don't make men like this anymore.By Cyn Hawkins Davis and Reuben Ray II
613,000 تومان
زمان تحویل: حداکثر 24 ساعت