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Formula for Fortune:
How Asa Candler Discovered Coca-Cola and Turned It into the Wealth His Children Enjoyed
Everyone knows Coca-Cola.
But do you know how Coca-Cola came into the world?
- The secret formula was discovered by Asa Candler, a country boy born before the Civil War.
- The formula originally contained cocaine.
- Candler transformed a patent medicine into a money-making bonanza.
- He became a millionaire in ten years.
Or how Candler changed the face of Atlanta?
- He was the city's mayor during World War I.
- He helped put out the city's worst fire.
- He founded Emory University in 1914.
- He built some of the city's greatest architectural treasures.
- He developed and owned most of the Druid Hills subdivision
Or that he had several personal shortcomings?
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He forbade his wife and daughter from drinking too much Coca-Cola.
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He often talked too much and caused problems for his own company.
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So his brother kept him from attending aspectacular trial in 1911 when Coca-Cola was sued by the US government.
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He made the headlines because of a late-life love affair.
Or that he had a whacky, wonderful, and sometimes heartbreakingly tragic family?
- His son-in-law was brutally and mysteriously murdered.
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One son started the airport that is now the nation's largest.
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That same son had a private zoo on his estate.
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Another son had a racetrack on his property.
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Another built Callanwolde, a city treasure.
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Another owned the Biltmore Hotel.
Learn about all this in Formula for Fortune
