Rice to ruin: the Jonathan Lucas family in South Carolina, 1793-1929

Tells the story of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of the Jonathan Lucas family's rice-mill dynasty.

In 1787 Jonathan Lucas introduced the first highly successful water-pounding rice mill - creating the foundation of an international rice mill dynasty.

In Rice to Ruin, Roy Williams III and Alexander Lucas Lofton recount the saga of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of that empire.