Lightning in a Bottle: The Early Years of Coke

On this episode of Our American Stories, why were Coke bottles green? How do Delta Airlines and Coca Cola relate? How did a syrup that was originally sold as a patent medicine end up as the South's greatest export in the post-Civil War economy? Larry Jorgensen, author of The Coca Cola Trail and the Return to the Coca Cola Trail tells the story of this sugary soft drink.

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