American Hiro Audiobook Libro.fm

Traveling the world with my father watching him interact with people famous and ordinary observing up close his ballsout sense of adventure and having a largerthanlife personality to live up to had a profound effect on me and the formation of my character From the foreword by Steve Aoki Grammynominated producer and Billboard awardwinning DJ

Hiroaki Rocky Aoki was a man who succeeded in everything he pursued From wrestling ballooning underwater exploration and car and boat racing to founding Benihana Rockys passion for life infected all around him and accelerated the exchange of Japanese culture and cuisine with America Rockys rags to riches story from dishwasher and busboy to owner of a multimilliondollar restaurant empire is an American dream realized unlike any other Running and expanding the business would be allconsuming for most people but Rocky would not be deterred His determination for the business rivaled the drive he demonstrated in his other interests some of which almost killed him American Hiro by Jack McCallum who had full access to Rocky Aoki and those in his enterprises provides the only full inside account of one of the most famous symbols of cultural assimilation and capitalistic zeal in modern United States historya champion in business sports and life