Description: With a shoestring budget, a lot of business savvy and a unique vision, Jerome Brody began Restaurant Associates and masterminded the creation of America's first great restaurants. Jerome Brody single-handedly put American restaurant dining on a par with the best of Europe by creating restaurants such as The Four Seasons, Gallagher's, The Rainbow Room, La Fonda del Sol, L'Etoile, and The Grand Central Oyster Bar. Wanting his creations to be as much works of art as the food they served, Brody employed such world-famous architects and designers as Philip Johnson, Mies van der Rohe, and Eero Saarinen, and worked with the likes of Mimi Sheraton, Paul Bocuse, and Henri Soule -- forever changing the ambiance in which great food would be served. Always a hands-on executive, his imagination, resilience and uncompromising honesty have made him one of America's most admired businessmen.

A Time Well Spent is a never-before-seen insider's view of the financial and artistic genius that made all of these great restaurants possible. From Brody's magnificent rise to the top and the turmoil that led to his removal from Restaurant Associates in a bloody coup engineered by his father-in-law, to the building of a new restaurant and breeding empire, Freundlich captures in great detail the life of a man of extraordinary talent and will.

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