Meta4 Press imprint: 24 books

"One of the most poignant untold stories in American history." -- Joseph J.Ellis, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner. Billly Lee, an African-American slave, was at George Washington's side for over 30 years. Although never a relationship between equals, it was an intimate and enduring...

Famed aviation pioneer Donald Douglas once said "Every airplane flying today has some Jack Northrop in it." Northrop was an aviation genius who was more interested in developing new technology than selling airplanes or making a fortune. The Northrop story is the story of American aviation history; he...

Biographical profile of Katharine Graham who once described herself as a doormat wife but subsequently became one of the most powerful figures in America during the 20th Century. The New York Times called her a "publishing legend." William Buckley the conservative columnist said she was a "mythogenic...

Biographical profile of Hetty Green considered by most historians to have been the richest American woman of all time. Dubbed "America's First Female Tycoon" or the "Witch of Wall Street" Green deservedly earned a place in the pantheon of American titans. Unfortunately she is better known for her...

New Enhanced Digital EditionRay Kroc's remarkable rise to the top of the food chain--fast foods that is--began at a later age than most successful entrepreneurs at age 52. The former salesman of Multimixer milkshake machines heard about the McDonald brothers' restaurant in Southern California...

Biographical profile of Conrad Hilton one of the greatest hoteliers of all time. He acquired his first hotel more by accident than by design the Mobley in Cisco Texas. Seeking to increase his profits by maximizing space sometimes taking drastic action to do so he developed a system he called "mining...

Biographical profile of Steve Jobs the founder of Apple Computers and the man who led an evolution in American technology and culture. He ushered in the world of personal computing with the Apple and Mac line of computers changed the way we buy and listen to music with the iPod iTunes and the iTunes...

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were staunch opponents of a national bank. When President Jackson let the charter of the second bank lapse after 20 years it left the nation unprepared and powerless to respond quickly or effectively to major economic declines or emergencies. J. Pierpont Morgan...

Biographical profile of Jay Gould railroad tycoon and baron of Wall Street. Jay Gould one of the richest and most hated men in America in the 1880s was an elusive slippery character difficult to assess and more difficult to understand. The secretive tycoon was brilliant and ruthless perhaps the quintessential...

Sergey Brin once described the Internet as the repository of all our knowledge and the company he and Larry Page founded a mere decade ago Google Inc. provides access to the Internet for a majority of the Western world. Google has altered the world we live in with a profound impact on just about everything...

William Randolph Hearst was a man of mythical proportions and staggering contradictions. And he was a fascinating character so much so that he appears in various fictional works from John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon" to Orson Welles' "Citizen...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates writes: "Genuine pioneers don't stop after just one discovery or innovation. They are driven to build on their accomplishments and to follow them into new frontiers." He was speaking about Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com which ushered in the brave new world of...

Award-winning and international best-selling novel by Laird Koenig. Some little girls can be murder! Thirteen-year-old Rynn is a gifted prodigy who lives in a big old house with her reclusive father...all alone. Or does she? When Rynn's nosy landlady and a lecherous neighbor begin to suspect that...

Robert Louis Stevenson said, "Everyone lives by selling something." It is the principal force driving all commercial transactions and activities, from the executive suite of suits and ties to the trenches of open collar and rolled-up sleeves. Given the relative importance of selling in our quest for...