The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy
A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry
In 1922, George A. Hormel--founder of the multibillion-dollar company Hormel Foods--fired Gretchen Cherington's grandfather, Alpha LaRue Eberhart, after a decade-long embezzlement scandal. Was he, as rumors suggested, complicit? Cherington digs deep to understand what really happened one hundred years ago--and to make sense of her complicated legacy.