1974, ISBN: 0679400648

[EAN: 9780679400646], Near Fine, [PU: Weybright and Talley], BUSINESS, INDUSTRY, WEALTHY, INNOVATION, INVENTION, UNITED STATES, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, Business & Economics|Industries|General… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780679400646], Near Fine, [PU: Weybright and Talley], BUSINESS, INDUSTRY, WEALTHY, INNOVATION, INVENTION, UNITED STATES, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, Business & Economics|Industries|General, Business & Economics|Corporate & Business History, Jacket, THE ENTREPRENEURS, EXPLORATIONS WITHIN THE AMERICAN BUSINESS TRADITION, Robert Sobel, hardcover with dust jacket (price not printed), 1974. BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block is in fine condition, with no tears, dog-ears, or marks. Not a remainder nor library book. There is no bookplate or signature of a prior owner. The brown cloth boards are in very good condition. The dust jacket is in good condition (intact, edge chipping, smudges on front and back covers). 9 x 6, 413 pages, 29 ounces XX [from the inner flaps] Business attitudes and values are under great scrutiny today. Powerful political pressures and an increasingly organized public require a fresh look at the foundations of the American business system and the men who made it. How did the two interact? In what ways did these enterprisers mold their industries, some of which, for better or worse, came to dominate the nation? The American entrepreneur has long been praised as the most original product of the national experience and condemned as the destroyer of Old World values. In fact, he has been neither, but rather the creator of a new organizational tradition, one that has since been imitated throughout the Western world. How did it happen? In this new book Robert Sobel, the noted financial historian, explores the lives and careers of nine representative innovators in business during the last two hundred years, men frequently overlooked by contemporary social and political historians. Each individual was selected to illustrate a different aspect of the tradition. All share the ability to grasp opportunity, and to oppose conventional wisdom, when necessary, that contributed to the fabric of modern corporate life. The nine men are Francis Cabot Lowell (The Patrician as Factory Master), John Wanamaker (The Triumph of Content Over Form), Cyrus McCormick (From Farm Boy to Tycoon), James Hill (The Business of Empire), James Duke (Opportunism Is the Spur), Theodore Vail (The Subtle Serendipidist), Marcus Loew (An Artist in Spite of Himself), Donald Douglas (The Fortunes of War), and Royal Little (The Spider and His Webs). XX ROBERT SOBEL is a professor of history at New College of Hofstra. His most recent books include Amex: A History of the American Stock Exchange 1921-1971 and The Money Manias: The Eras of Great Speculation in America 1770-1970., Books<