Author: Andy Logan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Journalism Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
Everyone has heard of the robber barons ... who not only preyed on each other but on the nation at large during the second half of the [19th] century. Yet when these lords of industry were at the height of their power, a now all-but-forgotten magazine editor named Colonel William d'Alton Man was, in his turn, systematically robbing the robbers. The secret of the Colonel's power lay in the editorial philosophy of his magazine, "Town Topics, the Journal of Society". Each week half of "Town Topics" was given over to reports, largely scandalous, about what was going on among society leaders -- or would-be society leaders -- in major American Cities. This department, called "Saunterings" and signed "The Saunterer" -- the Colonel's nom de plume -- makes lively and often appalling reading even ... generations later. ...One hero emerges ... the husband of Emily Post who brought Colonel Mann to trial because he preferred public humiliation in "Town Topics' to the private humiliation of paying blackmail to a blackguard. -- Jacket flap.
Author: Matthew Josephson Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780156767903 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 496
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Includes material on John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpoint Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E.H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Jay Cooke, Daniel Drew, Henry C. Frick, James J. Hill, Charles M. Schwab, Henry Villard, Standard Oil Company, trusts.
Author: Burton W. Folsom Publisher: Young Americas Foundation ISBN: 0963020315 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 185
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In his book The Myth of the Robber Barons, Folsom distinguishes between political entrepreneurs who ran inefficient businesses supported by government favors, and market entrepreneurs who succeeded by providing better and lower-cost products or services, usually while facing vigorous competition.
Author: Roger Wilkes Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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Newspaper and magazine gossip is a potent and sulphurous brew - much derided and much devoured - that long ago became part of the daily diet of millions. The raw ingredients are scandal, rumour, glamour and scurrility, and the best is shot through with (preferably illicit) sex, disclosure and danger. How and why has this happened, and where will this obsession lead us?
Author: John Franch Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252030990 Category : Capitalists and financiers Languages : en Pages : 386
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"After losing his fortune and being jailed for financial improprieties in Philadelphia, Yerkes schemed his way out of prison. With his boundless ambition and entrepreneurial genius intact, he relocated to Chicago and made millions from questionable financial transactions, while at the same time forging one of the world's finest mass transit networks. Despite various philanthropic efforts, Yerkes and his methods were fiercely opposed by the press and public, and he left Chicago a bitter man. Moving to London, he organized much of the Underground, battled J. P. Morgan, and romanced Emilie Grigsby, the love of his life, before succumbing to kidney disease in 1905.".
Author: Roland De Wolk Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 0520383230 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 343
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The rags-to-riches story of Silicon Valley's original disruptor. American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford – from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class university that became and remains the nucleus of Silicon Valley. The life of this robber baron, politician, and historic influencer is the astonishing tale of how one supremely ambitious man became this country's original "disruptor" – reshaping industry and engineering one of the greatest raids on the public treasury for America’s transcontinental railroad, all while living more opulently than maharajas, kings, and emperors. It is also the saga of how Stanford, once a serial failure, overcame all obstacles to become one of America’s most powerful and wealthiest men, using his high elective office to enrich himself before losing the one thing that mattered most to him—his only child and son. Scandal and intrigue would follow Stanford through his life, and even after his death, when his widow was murdered in a Honolulu hotel—a crime quickly covered up by the almost stillborn university she had saved. Richly detailed and deeply researched, American Disruptor restores Leland Stanford’s rightful place as a revolutionary force and architect of modern America.
Author: Christopher M. Elias Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226823938 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 314
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J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover’s FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illegal surveillance, while McCarthy and Cohn will forever be associated with the infamous anticommunist smear campaign of the early 1950s, which culminated in McCarthy’s public disgrace during televised Senate hearings. In Gossip Men, Christopher M. Elias takes a probing look at these tarnished figures to reveal a host of startling new connections among gender, sexuality, and national security in twentieth-century American politics. Elias illustrates how these three men solidified their power through the skillful use of deliberately misleading techniques like implication, hyperbole, and photographic manipulation. Just as provocatively, he shows that the American people of the 1950s were particularly primed to accept these coded threats because they were already familiar with such tactics from widely popular gossip magazines. By using gossip as a lens to examine profound issues of state security and institutional power, Elias thoroughly transforms our understanding of the development of modern American political culture.
Author: Peggy Gavan Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 1978800223 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
This book tells the stories of the tender-hearted men who adopted stray cats from the cruel streets of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century New York. Its forty-two profiles introduce us to an array of remarkable men and extraordinary cats, including sports team mascots, artists' muses, and presidential pets.
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