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Category : Polymerization
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Drexel Polymer Notes
Flight of the WASP
Author: Michael GrossPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 080216188X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Fifteen families.Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America’s history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America. While the WASP elite has, in the last half century, indeed drifted from American centrality to the periphery, its relevance and impact remain, as Michael Gross reveals in his compelling chronicle. From Colonial America’s founding settlements through the Gilded Age to the present day, Gross traces the complex legacy of American WASPs—their profound accomplishments and egregious failures—through the lives of fifteen influential individuals and their very privileged, sometimes intermarried families. As the Bradford, Randolph, Morris, Biddle, Sanford, Peabody and Whitney clans progress, prosper and periodically stumble, defining aspects in the four-century sweep of American history emerge: our wide, oft-contentious religious diversity; the deep scars of slavery, genocide, and intolerance; the creation and sometime mis-use of astonishing economic and political power; an enduring belief in the future; an instinct to offset inequity with philanthropy; an equal capacity for irresponsible, sometimes wanton, behavior. “American society was supposed to be different,” writes Gross, “but for most of our history we have had a patriciate, an aristocracy, a hereditary oligarchic upper class, who initiated the American national experiment.” In previous acclaimed books such as 740 Park and Rogues’ Gallery, Gross has explored elite culture in microcosm; expanding the canvas, Flight of the WASP chronicles it across four centuries and fifteen generations in an ambitious and consequential contribution to American history.
The Financier
Author: Theodore DreiserPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252035046
Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Roark Mulligan is an associate professor of English at Christopher Newport University. His research on Theodore Dreiser has been published in American Literary Realism, English Language Notes, Dreiser Studies, and Studies in American Naturalism. --Book Jacket.
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Author: The Morgans
Author: Vincent P. CarossoPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674587298
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
The House of Morgan personified economic power in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Carosso constructs an in-depth account of the evolution, operations, and management of the Morgan banks at London, New York, Philadelphia, and Paris, from the time Junius Spencer Morgan left Boston for London to the death of his son, John Pierpont Morgan.
The Man Who Made Wall Street
Author: Dan RottenbergPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812219661
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
After decades of detective work, Dan Rottenberg has succeeded in writing the first biography of this exceptionally influential and elusive man.
Drexel Polymer Notes
Author: SPE/ANTEC 1997 Proceedings
Author: SpePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781566765534
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1504
Book Description
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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