Americas category: 34066 books
A Full Cup
Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America's Cup
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
An in-depth biography of Sir Thomas Lipton, the founder of Lipton Tea-a portrait of a remarkable self-made man and intrepid sailor.
Today Lipton means tea. However, in his time Sir Thomas Lipton was known for much more. Raised in desperate poverty, he became rich beyond his wildest dreams....
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield
A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James “Jubilee Jim” Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad,...
The Great Pierpont Morgan
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A revealing biography of J. P. Morgan, one of the most powerful and enigmatic financiers in history, from bestselling author Frederick Lewis Allen.
Celebrated as a titan of industry by some and decried as a monopolizing robber baron by others, John Pierpont Morgan was without a doubt a dominant...
Towers of Gold
How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Isaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 with very little money in his pocket and his brother Herman by his side. By the time he died, he had effectively transformed Los Angeles into the modern metropolis we see today. In Frances Dinkelspiel's groundbreaking history, the early...
Civil War Barons
The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Before the robber barons there were Civil War barons--a remarkable yet largely unknown group of men whose contributions won the war and shaped America's future.
The Civil War woke a sleeping giant in America, creating unprecedented industrial growth that not only supported the struggle but...
Jay Cooke's Gamble
The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke’s gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity,...
The Monopolists
Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins.
Most...
by Terry Ganey
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
For over a century the Busch name stood for power, wealth, influence and premium beer. The gargantuan Anheuser-Busch brewing empire survived countless public and private scandals. But in 2008 a foreign competitor swallowed Anheuser-Busch whole. Two years later a young model died from a drug overdose...
Prince of Darkness
The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his one-time opponent. The day after Vanderbilt's death on January 4, 1877, an almost full-page obituary on the front...
Great American Lives
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Brilliant, captivating, and unforgettable memoirs from four of the greatest minds in American history.
Penned between 1771 and 1790 and published after his death, The**Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of the most acclaimed and widely read personal histories ever written. From his youth...
by George Aaron Cuddy
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Where Hash Rules is the story of Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe, a cultural landmark in Boston since 1927, with tales and photographs about the many interesting characters who have enjoyed turkey hash and eggs through the years. Named an "American Classic" by the James Beard Foundation in 2005, the diner has evolved to be as much a part of local folklore as the tea party.
The Vagabonds
The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
The fascinating story of two American giants—Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship altered dramatically.
In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist...
Citizen Swain
Tales from a Minnesota Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
For an insider’s take on the last eighty years in Minnesota history, sit down with Tom H. Swain’s memoir. It is a personal look at the people and events that shaped the state’s history, written by a civic and business leader—and a true public servant—with a genuine knack for telling a story....
Eaton's
The Trans-Canada Store
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Explore the broad, fascinating history of the Eaton's department store empire. Exhaustively researched and thoughtfully written by a prominent department store historian. Canada's largest and most well-known department store, Eaton's was an icon of Canadian culture. From its founding in 1869 to its...