From Publishers Weekly
Keeping his prose blessedly free of "sweet" wordplay, D'Antonio offers a balanced and genial look at the man who brought America the five-cent chocolate bar and founded a utopian village. Not a massive social history with grand pretensions—indeed, it's a relief to pick up a corporate titan's biography that weighs less than eight pounds—this volume will satisfy all but the most voracious readers.

From Bookmarks Magazine
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael D’Antonio (Atomic Harvest; Fall From Grace; The State Boys Rebellion), delivers the first full biography of Milton S. Hershey, to universal critical acclaim. Hamstrung by a dearth of primary sources, D’Antonio makes economy a virtue. He focuses on newspaper accounts of the time and unfinished manuscripts to tell Hershey’s rags-to-riches story, while providing enough historical context on everything from the rise of marketing to labor unions to give Hershey’s unique accomplishment its due. At the same time, D’Antonio remains clear-eyed about Hershey’s "benevolent dictator" flaws. Critics extol D’Antonio’s evenhanded, objective treatment of such a colorful and sometimes paradoxical character.

Milton Hershey - the man who brought America the five-cent chocolate bar