Americas category: 34066 books
by Joseph Frazier Wall
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In a remarkable essay entitled "Wealth" and published in 1889, Andrew Carnegie argued that there were only three alternatives by which a man of great wealth could dispose of his fortune: Leave it to his family, bequeath it in his will for public purposes, or administer its distribution for public benefit...
Ponzi
The Incredible True Story of the King of Financial Cons
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Just who was the man whose name has become synonymous with the classic “rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” scam in which money from new investors is used to reward earlier ones? In December 1919, he was an unknown thirty-eight-year-old, self-educated Italian immigrant with a borrowed two-hundred dollars...
by Vincent Curcio
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti-Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made millions...
Treated Like Family
How an Entrepreneur and His "Employee Family" Built Sargento, a Billion-Dollar Cheese Company
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
At the age of nineteen, high school diploma in hand, Leonard Gentine knew two things: he wanted to own a family business that would pass from generation to generation, and he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Dolores Becker, a girl he'd met on a blind date.
For Leonard, life didn't...
The Outsider
Albert M. Greenfield and the Fall of the Protestant Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Albert M. Greenfield (1887-1967), an ambitious immigrant outsider, was courted for his business acumen by mayors, senators, governors, and presidents, including Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. As this feisty Russian Jew built a business empire that encompassed real estate, stores (including Bonwit...
The Man Behind the Microchip : Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor a leading entrepreneur and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now in The Man Behind the Microchip Leslie Berlin captures not only this colorful...
Indians, Cattle, Ships and Oil
The Story of W. M. D. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Indian trader, rancher, harbor developer, oil impresario—these are the many worlds of one of the least chronicled but most fascinating characters of the American West. In the early, bustling years of the frontier, a brazen young man named William McDole Lee moved from Wisconsin to Kansas and then to...
by William Stoddard
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Men of Business is a classic collection of famous American businessmen, such as John Jacob Astor and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
A table of contents is included.
The King Of California
J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2005
The fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of California, and shaped the landscape for decades to come.
J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while...
Justus S. Stearns
Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Near the turn of the twentieth century, “Pine King” Justus S. Stearns was Michigan’s largest producer of manufactured lumber and the owner of a prosperous coal mining operation headquartered in Stearns, Kentucky, a town he founded. Over the course of his career, Stearns would own at least thirty...
Norman B. Ream
Forgotten Master of Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Norman Bruce Ream was born in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1844, the son of a farmer. He exhibited a commercial sense, but the Civil War interrupted his ambitions. Wounded twice, he returned home a hero.
After some unsuccessful business ventures out west, he went to Chicago in 1871 and became...
by Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave, John Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Born Heinrich Hilgard in Bavaria, Henry Villard (1835-1900) emigrated to the United States at age 18 after a disagreement with his father, penniless, not speaking a word of English and without his parents’ knowledge.
Within five years, he had mastered the English language and was covering...
The Pacesetter
The Complete Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Who was responsible for the these Great American Landmarks: The Indy 500, The Dixie Highway, The Lincoln Highway, Miami Beach and Montauk New York?
Architecture's Odd Couple
Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867–1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906–2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built...