W. Duncan MacMillan and Patricia Condon Johnston are both Minnesota authors. MacMillan: The American Grain Family is the saga of one family's quest over the last century and a half to find economic success. To say that they have succeeded would be understating the fact considerably. The MacMillans, with their Cargill cousins, are today the owners of the largest privately held company in the world: Cargill, Inc. But while we usually think of American fortune coming from ever-newer technology, this one comes from America's oldest industry, agriculture. One of the world's wealthiest and most poweful families, the MacMillans are also one of the most private. Modest when they have no need to be modest, they have largely managed to retain the simple virtues so characteristic of their native Scotland and the American Midwest. An engrossing account of pluck and daring, love and loss, triumph and failure, MacMillan is the last great American success story with its roots in the nineteenth century. There will be no other. There has been none more important to our times. - Dust jacket.