Book Description
The Life and Times of America's First Tycoon
Author : George Wilson
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780938289562
The Life and Times of America's First Tycoon
Author : T.J. Stiles
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400031745
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual to create modern capitalism. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The First Tycoon describes an improbable life, from Vanderbilt’s humble birth during the presidency of George Washington to his death as one of the richest men in American history. In between we see how the Commodore helped to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation. Epic in its scope and success, the life of Vanderbilt is also the story of the rise of America itself.
Author : Cheesman Abiah Herrick
Publisher :
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 1923
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Cheesman Abiah Herrick
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 1923
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Harry Emerson Wildes
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Industrialists
ISBN :
Author : E. Digby Baltzell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1351495348
Based on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, Lowells, and Peabodys have produced many generations of men and women who have made major contributions to the intellectual, educational, and political life of their state and nation. At the same time, comparable Philadelphia families such as the Biddles, Cadwaladers, Ingersolls, and Drexels have contributed far fewer leaders to their state and nation. From the days of Benjamin Franklin and Stephen Girard down to the present, what leadership there has been in Philadelphia has largely been provided by self-made men, often, like Franklin, born outside Pennsylvania.Baltzell traces the differences in class authority and leadership in these two cites to the contrasting values of the Puritan founders of the Bay Colony and the Quaker founders of the City of Brotherly Love. While Puritans placed great value on the calling or devotion to one's chosen vocation, Quakers have always placed more emphasis on being a good person than on being a good judge or statesman. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia presents a provocative view of two contrasting upper classes and also reflects the author's larger concern with the conflicting values of hierarchy and egalitarianism in American history.
Author : René Girard
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826468535
Presenting an original global theory of culture, Girard explores the social function of violence and the mechanism of the social scapegoat. His vision is a challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion and psychoanalysis. Rene Gerard is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University, USA.
Author : Robert E. Wright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2006-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226910687
The authors chronicle how a different group of nine founding fathers forged the wealth and institutions necessary to transform the American colonies from a diffuse alliance of contending business interests into one cohesive economic superpower.
Author : Robert Louis Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2003-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812237146
From the Wharton School, offering a comprehensive assessment of the political and financial dimensions of public-sector pensions from the colonial period until the emergence of modern retirement plans in the twentieth century.
Author : Cheesman A. Herrick
Publisher :
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780781254694
Bonded Leather binding