Author: Duquesne ClubPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Charter and By-laws of the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh
Author: Duquesne ClubDuquesne Club
Author: Jerry VondasAn Illustrated History of the Duquesne Club
Author: Duquesne Club StaffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book provides a history of Pittsburgh's Duquesne Club, from its inception in 1873 through to 2023.
Members Only
Author: Diana Elizabeth KendallPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742545564
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Members Only addresses how exclusive private clubs maintain and perpetuate class-based privilege and racial/ethnic and religious segregation, and how such patterns of social exclusion heighten social inequality. Members Only continues Kendall's study of the upper classes, whic...
Menu from First Social Dinner at the Duquesne Club, September 17, 1873, Printed on Cloth Banner
Author: Duquesne ClubCharter and By-Laws of the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh 1896
Author: Duquesne ClubPublisher:
ISBN: 9781581035834
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Duquesne Club Yearbook
Author: Duquesne Club (Pittsburgh, Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The World's Richest Neighborhood
Author: Quentin R. SkrabecPublisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875867979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The residents of Pittsburgh's East End controlled as much a 40% of America's assets at the turn of the last century. Mail was delivered seven times a day to keep America's greatest capitalists in touch with their factories, banks, and markets. The neighborhood had its own private station of the Pennsylvania Railroad with a daily non-stop express to New York's financial district. Many of the world's most powerful men - princes, artists, politicians, scientists, and American Presidents such as William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, came to visit the hard-working and high-flying captains of industry. Two major corporations, Standard Oil and ALCOA Aluminum were formed in East End homes. It was the first neighborhood to adopt the telephone with direct lines from the homes to the biggest banks in Pittsburgh, which at the time was America's fifth largest city. The story of this neighborhood is a story of America at its greatest point of wealth and includes rags-to-riches stories, political corruption, scandals, and greed. The history of this unique piece of American geography makes for enjoyable reading that will satisfy a large cross section of readers.
The Index
Author: Henry Clay Frick
Author: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786456086
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Henry Clay Frick, reviled in his own time, infamous in ours, was blamed for the Johnstown Flood (which killed 2,200 people) as well as the violent Homestead Strike of 1892, and survived an assassination attempt, yet at the same time was an ardent philanthropist, giving more than $100 million during his lifetime and in his will, while insisting on anonymity. This biography explores the contradictions in this great industrialist's nature and avoids the extremes of both hagiography and denunciation.