Author: George WilsonPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780938289562
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Life and Times of America's First Tycoon
Stephen Girard
Author: George WilsonPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780938289562
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Life and Times of America's First Tycoon
The First Tycoon
Author: T.J. StilesPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400031745
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual to create modern capitalism. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The First Tycoon describes an improbable life, from Vanderbilt’s humble birth during the presidency of George Washington to his death as one of the richest men in American history. In between we see how the Commodore helped to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation. Epic in its scope and success, the life of Vanderbilt is also the story of the rise of America itself.
Stephen Girard, Founder
Author: Cheesman Abiah HerrickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Lonely Midas
Author: Harry Emerson WildesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrialists
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Author: René GirardPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826468535
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Presenting an original global theory of culture, Girard explores the social function of violence and the mechanism of the social scapegoat. His vision is a challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion and psychoanalysis. Rene Gerard is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University, USA.
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia
Author: E. Digby BaltzellPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351495348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Based on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, Lowells, and Peabodys have produced many generations of men and women who have made major contributions to the intellectual, educational, and political life of their state and nation. At the same time, comparable Philadelphia families such as the Biddles, Cadwaladers, Ingersolls, and Drexels have contributed far fewer leaders to their state and nation. From the days of Benjamin Franklin and Stephen Girard down to the present, what leadership there has been in Philadelphia has largely been provided by self-made men, often, like Franklin, born outside Pennsylvania.Baltzell traces the differences in class authority and leadership in these two cites to the contrasting values of the Puritan founders of the Bay Colony and the Quaker founders of the City of Brotherly Love. While Puritans placed great value on the calling or devotion to one's chosen vocation, Quakers have always placed more emphasis on being a good person than on being a good judge or statesman. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia presents a provocative view of two contrasting upper classes and also reflects the author's larger concern with the conflicting values of hierarchy and egalitarianism in American history.
Financial Founding Fathers
Author: Robert E. WrightPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226910687
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The authors chronicle how a different group of nine founding fathers forged the wealth and institutions necessary to transform the American colonies from a diffuse alliance of contending business interests into one cohesive economic superpower.
Stephen Girard
Author: James J. RacitiPublisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 161139385X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Why is Stephen Girard, a figure from late Colonial America, important today? As a teenager, he left home in Bordeaux, France with meager funds and went to sea as a merchant marine, following his family’s tradition. In early summer, 1776, he landed in Phil
The Insanity of Mary Girard
Author: Lanie RobertsonPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573622274
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Brian's older brother thinks he's too small to play ball with them, but he shows them he's not.
A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States
Author: Robert Louis ClarkPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812237146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
From the Wharton School, offering a comprehensive assessment of the political and financial dimensions of public-sector pensions from the colonial period until the emergence of modern retirement plans in the twentieth century.