Stephen Fried

Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West (2010)

There was a lot to like about this book: trains, restaurants, business philosophy, Americana, family history, the Southwest. It is long and it's a great credit to the author that I read steadily through till the end rather than skipping around, which I think is possible with a subject so enormous...

Thing of Beauty (1994)