Half Luck and Half Brains: The Kemmons Wilson Holiday Inn Story (Hardcover) by Kemmons Wilson, Robert Kerr

9781571025067. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 214. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 214 p. In this autobiography, Wilson goes far beyond the epic of the most successful hotel chain in history. For the first time, Wilson recounts his entire larger-than-life, rags-to-riches story of a boy who grew up without a father, began selling popcorn at 17 and built a construction empire that stretched around the world. Here is how a young high-school drop-out developed the clout to borrow more than a billion dollars over his lifetime. Includes 60 pages of color photos.