The King of Vodka

“The story of the Smirnov family is an operatic tour-de-force, and Linda Himelstein tells it with grace and passion.” —Tilar J. Mazzeo, author of The Widow Clicquot From Vanderbilt and Rockefeller to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, America’s captains of industry are paragons of entrepreneurial success, and books about business history, from  The First Tycoon  to  The Big Short , show exemplars of capitalistic cunning and tenacity. But just as American cocktail connoisseurs can mistake