Notes on the Text ix
Preface to the First Edition xi
Preface to the Revised Edition xiii
Prologue: A Parable (January 1, 1985) 1(2)
Part I: In the Beginning (1886--1899) 3(80)
Time Capsule: The Golden Age of Quackery
7(10)
What Sigmund Freud, Pope Leo, and John Pemberton Had in Common
17(17)
The Tangled Chain of Title
34(13)
Asa Candler: His Triumphs and Headaches
47(22)
Bottle It: The World's Stupidest, Smartest Contract
69(14)
Part II: Heretics and True Believers (1900--1922) 83(64)
Success Under Siege
87(20)
Dr Wiley Weighs In
107(16)
The Sinister Syndicate
123(12)
Coca-Cola's Civil War
135(12)
Part III: The Golden Age (1923--1949) 147(80)
The Boss Takes the Helm
151(21)
Robert W. Woodruff
A Euphoric Depression and Pepsi's Push
172(23)
The $4,000 Bottle: Coca-Cola Goes to War
195(18)
Coca-Cola ber Alles
213(14)
Part IV: Trouble in the Promised Land (1950--1979) 227(96)
Coca-Colonization and the Communists
231(15)
Breaking the Commandments
246(25)
Paul Austin's Turbulent Sixties
271(22)
Big Red's Uneasy Slumber
293(30)
Part V: The Corporate Era (1980--1999) 323(133)
Roberto Goizueta's Bottom Line
327(20)
The Marketing Blunder of the Century
347(17)
The Big Red Machine
364(26)
Global Fizz
390(34)
Ivester Inherits a World of Trouble
424(16)
World Without End?
440(16)
Appendix 1: The Sacred Formula 456(5)
Appendix 2: Coca-Cola Magic: Thirty Business Lessons 461(8)
Notes 469(114)
Bibliography 583(10)
Interviews 593(3)
Acknowledgments to First Edition 596(3)
Acknowledgments to Revised Edition 599(2)
Index 601