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Author:   Wyn Derbyshire
Publisher:   Spiramus Press
Imprint:   Spiramus Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9781904905851

ISBN 10:   1904905854
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 October 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

About the author. v Contents. vii List of illustrations. ix Introduction.. 1 John Jacob AStor.. 7 From Walldorf to New York. 7 The Fur Trade. 9 Astoria. 14 Manhattan Landlord. 21 Cornelius Vanderbilt.. 29 New York Harbour. 29 Gibbons v Ogden. 32 Uncle Daniel 35 To The Pacific. 39 Railroads and Corners. 41 The Erie Railroad Wars. 47 Andrew Carnegie.. 61 The Bobbin Boy. 61 Telegraphs and Railroads. 66 The Budding Capitalist 70 The Civil War and After. 73 The Panic of 1873. 82 The Industrialist 88 The Homestead Strike and its Aftermath. 96 Carnegie Steel 100 Skibo Castle and the Gospel of Wealth. 102 The Departure of Frick. 105 The Years of Philanthropy. 109 The Advocate of Peace. 113 The First World War and After. 115 John D Rockefeller.. 119 The Young Rockefeller. 119 The Oil Regions. 124 Henry Flagler and the Creation of Standard Oil 128 The Dissolution of Standard Oil 141 Rockefeller's Philanthropies. 144 Henry Ford.. 151 The Young Mechanic. 151 The First Cars. 157 The Ford Motor Company and the Model T.. 161 The Peace Ship and the War. 173 The Dearborn Independent 181 Evangeline. 185 Changes. 186 The Last Years. 196 Joseph P Kennedy.. 203 Early Days in Boston. 203 Marriage and Money. 207 Wall Street and the New Deal 212 Ambassador to the Court of St James. 217 The War Years. 222 Politics and Tragedies. 231 Select Bibliography.. 239 Index.. 241

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Wyn Derbyshire originally trained as a research chemist, gaining a PhD from the University of Cambridge before qualifying as a lawyer. He has for many years been interested in financial history. He is writing a series of biographies of tycoons for Spiramus Press.

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