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02748aam a2200349 i 4500 001 D7DD85A8084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240502011849 008 220826t20232023cauac 000 0ceng d 020 $a 1647420830 020 $a 9781647420833 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d GK8 $d TP7 $d BDX $d CHY $d SFR $d SKYRV $d SILO 082 04 $a 364.1624097309042 $2 23 100 1 $a Cherington, Gretchen, $e author. 245 14 $a The butcher, the embezzler, and the fall guy : $b a family memoir of scandal and greed in the meat industry / $c Gretchen Cherington. 246 3 $a Family memoir of scandal and greed in the meat industry. 264 1 $a Berkeley, California : $b She Writes Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 257 pages : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a Three powerful men converge in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota--George Albert Hormel, founder of Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author's paternal grandfather and Hormel's Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary; and Ransome Josiah Thomson, Hormel's comptroller. Over ten years, Thomson will embezzle $1.2 million from the company's coffers, nearly bringing the company to its knees. The book opens in 1922 as George Hormel calls Eberhart into his office and demands his resignation. Hailed as the true leader of the company he'd helped Hormel build--is Eberhart complicit in the embezzlement? In scale both intimate and grand, Cherington deftly weaves the histories of Hormel, Eberhart, and Thomson within the sweeping landscape of our country's early industries, along with keen observations about business leaders gleaned from her career advising top company executives. The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy equally chronicles Cherington's journey from blind faith in family lore to a nuanced consideration of the three men's great strengths and flaws--and a multilayered, thoughtful exploration of the ways we all must contend with the mythology of powerful men, our reverence for heroes, and the legacy of a complicated past. 610 20 $a Hormel Foods Corporation $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Packing-houses $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Embezzlement. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a TRUE CRIME / White Collar Crime. $2 bisacsh 651 0 $a Minnestoa $x History $y 20th century. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20240502012012.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D7DD85A8084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search