Have time at the end for a q a session please line up at the microphone to the right so with that i will handed over to the interviewer the managing editor for the Chicago Tribune. Welcome to ruth printers row lit fest. I am pleased to be sitting here with lisa napoli with a fellow journalist who is the offer of ray and joan the man who made the mcdonalds fortune and the woman who you gave the ball away. We were working on a cover line for a magazine people dont put appreciate how long it can go. Reading the New York Post that this was different and i got lucky. It is a book about the man who made mcdonalds what it is and then the head spinning philanthropy of his wife joan kroc so liz taylor who was the Chicago Tribune editoratlarge in said a Business Editor should do the interview and then said it is more like a love story. I think it is a little more complex than that. Is. It is a love story and a hate story and about mid 20th century americana and that is what kept me going it took
Researched this book for five years. Thank you for being here with me. We are so happy to have you. Her first book was radio shangrila, which i love the fact that they have a gna, national happiness. We are glad youre here to talk about your new book ray and joe and his third and final ways. The story is so compelling in so many ways. I think we need to go back to the beginning a little bit here because mcdonalds is huge. Its ubiquitous. It is everywhere but it has some modest beginning in the little town in california with a couple of brothers. When you started researching, that take you where . San bernardino, california which is a small town and yes it is two brothers who came from New Hampshire she cant know yet if the weather in New Hampshire to california and the tonys, but they wanted to make their way in the movie industry like a lot of people did and still do today. And mac mcdonald made their way west and they found out very quickly as many people do that its hard to make it
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