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U.S. Business Leaders & Crooks
Page One

"America's business is business."
— President Calvin Coolidge

These pages gather the current & historical American business leaders that made this country a giant in the business world, as well as their companies and other organizations that exemplify the good practices – innovation, entrepreneurship, market creation – and bad practices – pseudo-capitalism, rampant exploitation, slavery, fascism, monopolies, bribery & corruption, Ponzi schemes – that over time built up a flourishing economic expansion that was only recently halted by the incompetence of the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush economic policies and by the Oligarchy's mandate for unregulated greed in the First Decade of the XXIst Century.

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U.S. Business Leaders & Crooks, A to Z
'P.T.' Barnum [1810-91]    •    Warren Buffett    •    'Buffalo Bill' Cody [1846-1917]    •    John Deere [1804-86]
Walt Disney [1901-66]    •    Thomas Edison [1847-1931]    •    Henry Ford [1863-1947]    •    Fred Harvey [1836-1901]
Howard Hughes [1905-76]    •    Kirk Kerkorian [b. 1917]    •    Henry Luce [1898-1967]    •    The Koch Brothers
'Bernie' Madoff    •    J.C. Penney [1895-1971]    •    T. Boone Pickens [b. 1928]    •    John D. Rockefeller [1839-1937]
The Studebaker Brothers    •    Preston Tucker [1903-56]    •    Ted Turner    •    Cornelius Vanderbilt [1794-1877]
George Westinghouse [1846-1914]    •    The Wright Brothers    •    Mark Zuckerberg    •    and many others ...

books & magazines    •    magazines & newspapers    •    links

Major U.S. Companies, A to Z {now on Page Two)
Amazon, Inc. [est. 1994]    •    Apple, Inc. [est. 1975]    •    Ben & Jerry's [est. 1978]
Enron [1986-2002]    •    Google, Inc. [est. 1998]    •    IKEA [est. 1943]
Microsoft [est. 1975]    •    The New York Times    •    Sizzler Restaurants [est. 1958]
Starbucks Coffee [est. 1971]    •    Tupperware [est. 1946]    •    TimeWarner [est. 19xx]
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. [est. 1962]    •    and many more ...

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Major Movie Studios Pages
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

Spirit of America Bookstore's Corporations & Brands Page

“All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be
forbidden by law; directors should not be permitted to use stockholders' money for such purposes;
and, moreover, a prohibition of this kind would be, as far as it went, an effective method of stopping
the evils aimed at in corrupt practices acts.”  — Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919], in 1905

Capitalism & Wall Street Page
at the Maison d'สtre Philosophy Bookstore

“Capitalism is the creation of jobs and products and services.”
— G.E. Nordell

WMail ezine Essay #40: "Paleo-Capitalism" [Feb 2004]

Corporate Crime Reporter newsletter & blog [est. 1987]

Campaign for Corporate Reform

U.S History / Business books search at Amazon

“This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer.
It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.”
— Rutherford B. Hayes [1822-93], 19th President of the United States, 1877–81

U.S. Business Leaders & Crooks, A to Z
BAD GUYS: U.S. Chamber of Commerce [est. 1912]
BAD GUYS: Business Roundtable [est. 1972]

"The Olympians: A Tribute To Tall Sun-Crowned Men" [1921] by Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915] chapters/topics include oil & food tycoon E.T. Bedford, botanist Luther Burbank, railroad tycoon Benjamin Franklin Bush, arms maker Samuel Pomeroy Colt, railroad executive George H. Daniels, John Davey, utilities tycoon Henry L. Doherty, automaker Henry Ford, educator Thomas J. Foster, steel tycoon Elbert H. Gary, restaurant tycoon Fred Harvey [1835-1901], railroad tycoon Charles M. Hays, college president Patrick J. Healy, explorer Henry Hudson, automaker {Packard} Henry B. Joy, cereal tycoons Dr. J.H. Kellogg & C.W. Post, Canadian statesman Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Judge Benjamin B. Lindsey, New York City politician William T. Noonan, New York City attorney John Edward Parsons, cash register tycoon {N.C.R.} John H. Patterson, Illinois banker & politician George M. Reynolds, tractor tycoons J.A. Secor & E.A. Rumely, toolmaker E.C. Simmons, hatmaker John B. Stetson, railroad tycoon Frederick D. Underwood, college president Dr. Charles R. Van Hise, New York City politician John H. Vincent, automaker John North Willys, machinery tycoon Sidney W. Winslow, and educator Ella Flagg Young BiblioLife 8x5 pb [10/2008] for $16.19 BiblioLife 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2008] for $21.99

"The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan Invented The American Supereconomy" [2005] by Charles R. Morris Holt 8x5½ pb [10/2006] for $12.24 Times Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/2005] out of print/many used

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Paul G. Allen of Microsoft, Inc. {on Page Two}

showman Phineas Taylor 'P.T.' Barnum [1810-91]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum

"Voices of History, Volume 2: Arts, Science & Exploration" [2006] British Library Sound Archive audio CD [1/2006] 2 disks for $41.49 38 tracks on 2 disks, mostly from very early in the XXth Century, including the voices of P.T. Barnum, Sarah Bernhardt, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Alva Edison, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Charles Lindbergh, Guglielmo Marconi, Robert Edwin Peary, Alice Ellen Terry & Leo Tolstoy

"The Greatest Showman On Earth" [Fox 2013?]
Announced 8/2011: 20th Century Fox’s period musical about P.T. Barnum, the legendary showman who created the
three-ring circus, and loved to hoax a gullible public, will star Hugh Jackman. Commercials director & visual effects
wizard Michael Gracey is set to direct; a focal point of the movie is Barnum’s infatuation with opera singer Jenny Lind,
called 'The Swedish Nightingale' • credits at IMDb

inventor Alexander Graham Bell [1847-1922]
"Story of the Telephone" [1910] by Herbert N. Casson; Amzn ebook B0000523WE for $7.15 (6/M1)
recvd patent for phone 3/7/1876
In "The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret" [2008]
journalist Seth Shulman argues that Bell stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray

Spirit of America Bookstore's
capitalist Warren Buffett Page

steel baron Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919]
PBS bio • PBS bio on VHS

"The Gospel of Wealth" and Other Writings [1889 classic] by industrialist Andrew Carnegie Penguin 7½x5 pb [9/2006] for $8.50

"The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The G..." [] by Andrew Carnegie
http://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Andrew-Carnegie-Gospel-Classics/dp/0451530381/

Clifford Clinton [1900-69] {restaurants}
Clifton's Cafeteria • movie "Big Heat" [1953] • Pearl Buck novel [1953]

showman Wm. F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody [1846-1917] Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

arms maker Samuel Pomeroy Colt [1852-1921]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Colt

Joshua Lionel Cowen [1877-1965]
Lionel Corp. [1901-1969] Section on the American Railroads Pages

The Crosley Brothers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powel_Crosley,_Jr. [1886-1961]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_M._Crosley [1888-1978]
www.amazon.com/Crosley-Brothers-Business-Empire-Transformed/dp/1578602912/
http://www.amazon.com/Crosley-Brothers-Business-Empire-Transformed/dp/1578603226/

farm equipment baron John Deere [1804-86]
official 'Story of John Deere' • Wikipedia

Deere & Company [est. 1837]
browse DVDs • official website • IMDb listing • entry on Wikipedia

"John Deere: A History of The Tractor" [2004] by Randy Leffingwell Voyageur Press 8¾x7¾ pb [8/2006] for $16.47 Voyageur/M.B.I. hardcover [11/2004] for $40.00

see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Tractors & Farm Equipment Page

Dr. W. Edwards Deming [1900-93] Page
at Maison d'สtre Philosophy Bookstore

Walt Disney [1901-66] Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

oil baron Edward L. Doheny [1856-1935]

"Dark Side of Fortune" bio [1995]

"Oil Baron of The Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and The Development of The Petroleum
Industry In California & Mexico" [1998] by Martin R. Ansell /0814207499/

The Doheny family built the Spanish style ranchhouse in lower Franklin Canyon in 1935.
http://www.lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=14

Donald Douglas [1892-1981]
{Douglas Aircraft Company}

George Eastman [1854-1932]
George Eastman entry at Wikipedia
P.B.S. George Eastman bio • P.B.S. bio on VHS

Eastman Kodak [est. 1892] official website
George Eastman House Museum of Photography [built 1905; chartered 1947]
George Eastman House / Dryden Theatre / online archive, 1895 to present

Spirit of America Bookstore's
inventor Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931] Page

automobile maker Henry Ford [1863-1947]
Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003
by Douglas Brinkley 067003181X
The Ford Century: Ford Motor Company and the Innovations That Shaped the World
by Russ Banham, Paul Newman 1579652018
http://www.amazon.com/Ford-Lynne-Adams/dp/B00097E6V8/ DVD

William Henry 'Bill' Gates III of Microsoft, Inc. {on Page Two}
browse books by/about Bill Gates at Amazon

toy maker & inventor A.C. Gilbert [1884-1961]
A.C. Gilbert entry at Wikipedia
A.C. Gilbert biography [new 10/2002]
ACGilbert biopic "The Man Who Saved Christmas" [2002]

Erector Set™ [est. 1911] entry at Wikipedia
BB's 'Erectorฎ Sets' fansite

razor blade baron King Gillette [1855-1932]

Charles Goodyear [1800-60]
recvd patent for rubber process 15 June 1844
never made tires, company began making them 28 yrs after his death;

robber baron Jason 'Jay' Gould [1836-92]
"[Jay Gould is] the mightiest disaster ever befallen this country. The people had desired money before his day,
but [Gould] taught them to fall down and worship it." — Mark Twain [1835-1910]

railroad tycoon E.H. Harriman [1848-1909]

"The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman" [] by Maury Klein ISBN-13: 9780807825174

restaurant tycoon Fred Harvey [1836-1901]
Fred Harvey Company / Harvey House Restaurants [1875-1968] Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

	"Images of America: Fred Harvey Houses of The Southwest" [2008] by Richard Melzer Arcadia Publng 9x6½ pb [11/2008] for $14.95
	"Appetite For America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built A Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized The Wild West" [2010] by Stephen Fried Bantam 9¼x6 pb [5/2011] for $12.24 Bantam 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2010] for $17.82

Spirit of America Bookstore's
newspaper & movie tycoon
William Randolph Hearst [1863-1951] Page

hedonist & editor Hugh M. Hefner

docufilm by Kevin Burns 1996 /tt0414123/ = not avail 10/M7

"Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel" docufilm [2010] /tt1503776/
by Brigitte Berman

The Hilton Clan
Conrad Hilton [1887-1979]
Conrad Nicholson 'Nicky' Hilton, Jr. [1926-1969]
William Barron Hilton [b. 1927]
Eric Michael Hilton [b. 1933]
Constance Francesca Hilton [b. 1947]
Richard Howard 'Rick' Hilton [b. 1955]
heiress Paris Whitney Hilton [b. 1981]
model & heiress Nicholai Olivia 'Nicky' Hilton [b. 1983]

Hilton Hotels & Resorts [est. 1919]

Spirit of America Bookstore's
billionaire Howard R. Hughes [1905-76] Page

railroad baron Henry E. Huntington [1850-1927]

"Henry E. Huntington and The Creation of Southern California" []
by William B. Friedricks /0814205534/

takeover investor Carl C. Icahn
entry at Wikipedia

"King Icahn" [1993] by Mark Stevens

movie pioneer Thomas H. Ince [1882-1924] Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

Steve Jobs [1955-2011] of Apple, Inc. {on Page two}

"[Steve Jobs] revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing." — biographer Walter Isaacson

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." — Steve Jobs, in 2005

industrialist Henry J. Kaiser [1882-1967]
“The Six Magic Words to Riches: Find a need and fill it.”
H-J-K- FAMILY FOUNDATION = www.kff.org
Kaiser Permanente http://www.kp.org/

billionaire Kirk Kerkorian [b. 1917]

Founded by oil baron Fred C. Koch [1900-67]; inherited by three sons in 1967 and
currently run by fascist political demagogues Charles G. Koch & David H. Koch

"Koch Industries is the poster child of a company run amok."
— Charles Lewis, Center For Public Integrity
company official website
company entry at Wikipedia

Institute for Humane Studies [est. 1961] at George Mason University in Virginia
Charles Koch Foundation [est. 1974], renamed The Cato Institute in 1977
Mercatus Center for Market Processes [est. 1980] at George Mason University in Virginia
Citizens For A Sound Economy [est. 1984]
FreedomWorks [2004 spinoff from C.F.S.E.] which funds Tea Party candidates
Americans For Prosperity [est. 2004] libertarian think tank

"Koch Brothers Exposed" video series [Brave New Films June 2011]
official website • watch free on YouTube [3:47]

fast food tycoon Ray Kroc [1902-84]
{McDonald's restaurants}
Grinding It Out: The Making Of McDonald's by Ray Kroc
http://www.amazon.com/Grinding-Out-McDonalds-Ray-Kroc/dp/0312929870/

publisher Henry Robinson Luce [1898-1967]

	"TIME: The Illustrated History of The World's Most Influential Magazine" [2010] by Norberto Angeletti & Alberto Oliva, Preface by {managing editor} Richard Stengel Rizzoli 12¼x9½ hardcover [4/2010] for $32.92
	"The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century" [2010] by Alan Brinkley Vintage 8x5¼ pb [4/2011] for $12.41 Knopf deckle-edge 9¼x5¾ hardcover [4/2010] for $25.55

swindler Bernard Lawrence 'Bernie' Madoff
browse books • incomplete IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller" [2010] by Harry Markopolos Independent financial fraud investigator Markopolos and his 'Fox Hounds' team investigated, documented, and reported Madoff's Ponzi scheme to newspapers and to the S.E.C.; the warnings were ignored repeatedly, until the scheme fell apart as the world's largest financial fraud ever. Wiley 9x6½ hardcover [3/2010] for $15.37

http://www.amazon.com/Madoff-Chronicles-Inside-Secret-Bernie/dp/B003BVK2LC/
http://www.amazon.com/Too-Good-Be-True-Bernie/dp/1591842875/
http://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Life-Lies-Bernie-Madoff/dp/0061870765/
http://www.amazon.com/Madoff-Money-Jerry-Oppenheimer/dp/0470504986/
http://www.amazon.com/Madoffs-Other-Secret-Money-Bernie/dp/0312618379/
http://www.amazon.com/Bernard-Madoff-Masterminding-Billion-Dollar/dp/159986505X/
http://www.amazon.com/Catastrophe-Story-Bernard-Madoff-Swindled/dp/1597776408/

untitled Madoff project [Tribeca Prodns/H.B.O. for 2013?]  
Announced 11/2011: H.B.O. purchased the rights to the book “Truth and Consequences: Inside The Life of The Madoff Family" by Laurie Sandell; John Burnham Schwartz will write the screenplay, Robert De Niro will portray Bernie Madoff
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • not yet listed on IMDb
http://www.amazon.com/Truth-Consequences-Inside-Madoff-Family/dp/0316198935/

inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. [1809–84]
Co-founder of Cyrus H. McCormick and Brothers [est. 1847] in Chicago; name changed in 1879 to McCormick
Harvesting Machine Company; merged in 1902 to form International Harvester Company.

banker John Pierpont 'J.P.' Morgan [1837-1913]

vacuum cleaner baron David Oreck [b. 1923]
official website/bio • products at Amazon.com

retail tycoon J.C. Penney [1895-1971]
B000006QJJ = A&E Biog video for $19.95

energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens [b. 1928]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Boone_Pickens
http://www.boonepickens.com
http://www.pickensplan.com
https://www.bpcap.net/welcome.asp

"The First Billion Is The Hardest: Reflections On A Life of Comebacks & America's Energy Future" [New York Times bestseller 2008] by T. Boone Pickens Crown Business 8x5 pb [9/2009] for $10.20 Crown Business 9¼x6 hardcover [9/2008] out of print/many used

newspaper tycoon Joseph Pulitzer [1847-1911]
bio on Pulitzer Prize website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize

make a page for Pulitzer-winning authors, list Steinbeck, Hofstadter, McPhee etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Biography_or_Autobiography [est. 1917]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction [est. 1918]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Drama [est. 1918]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Non-Fiction [est. 1962]
http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzer-Life-Politics-Print-Power/dp/B004E3XI3A/

oil baron John D. Rockefeller [1839-1937]
PBS bio • PBS bio on VHS

"Taking On The Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller - How An Investigative Journalist Brought Down Standard Oil" [2008] by Steve Weinberg W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [8/2009] for $12.92 W.W. Norton 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2008] for $17.13

'Colonel' Harland David Sanders [1890-1980]
{Kentucky Fried Chicken}

pants maker Levi Strauss [1829-1902]

The Studebaker Brothers

	Studebaker entry at Wikipedia Studebaker Clubs Studebaker History Studebaker National Museum Studebaker pictures gallery

Spirit of America Bookstore's
automaker Preston Tucker [1903-56] Page

Ted Turner {cable television}
new Ted Turner memoir 2008
Ted's Montana Grill chain features bison meat: first Jan 2002 in Columbus Ohio, up to 57 in 2009
==RANCHES
owns 590,823 acre Vermejo Park Ranch near Raton, NM (in No NM & So CO)
owns 113,613 acre Flying D Ranch is SW MT [purch 1989]
owns 22,129 acre Bar None Ranch in MT?
owns 13,343 acre Snowcrest Ranch in Madison County MT
owns 4,878 acre Red Rock Ranch in Beaverhead CO
owns Ladder Ranch near Hillsboro NM

tycoon 'Commodore' Cornelius Vanderbilt [1794-1877]
http://www.amazon.com/The-First-Tycoon/dp/B0026UNZD6

retail tycoon Sam Walton [1918-92]
http://www.amazon.com/Sam-Walton-Made-America/dp/0553562835/

industrialist George Westinghouse [1846-1914]
http://www.amazon.com/Westinghouse-DVD-Carol-Lee-Espy/dp/B000UO9ULQ/
Nikola Tesla [1856-1943] Page

Steve Wozniak of Apple, Inc. {on Page Two}

The Wright Brothers
Orville Wright [1871–1948]
Wilbur Wright [1867–1912]

chewing gum baron William Wrigley, Jr. [1861-1932]

showman Florenz Ziegfeld [1867-1932]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenz_Ziegfeld
http://www.amazon.com/Ziegfeld-Man-Invented-Show-Business/dp/0312375433/

billionaire Mark Zuckerberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
Time Magazine's "Man of The Year" December 2010

Facebook [est. Feb 2004] website • Facebook main entry at Wikipedia

"The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of The Company That Is Connecting The World"
[S&S 6/2010] by David Kirkpatrick
http://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Effect-Inside-Company-Connecting/dp/1439102112/

"The Social Network" [Relativity Media / Columbia Oct 2010]

"[The main] character bears almost no resemblance to the actual Mark Zuckerberg. The reality is much more complicated." per Time Magazine December 2010 cover story "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies": The story of the college student who created the Facebook phenomenon and six years later became the youngest billionaire in history. Directed by David Fincher; based on the book by Ben Mezrich; starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Rashida Jones, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara & Joseph Mazzello Sony Pictures widescreen color Blu-ray [1/2011] 2 disks for $16.99 Sony Pictures widescreen color DVD [1/2011] 2 disks for $11.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site

"The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook - A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal" [2009 bestseller] by Ben Mezrich Without access to central figure Mark Zuckerberg, the author fictionalized many important parts of the story, as well as sensationalizing college life; the result is a questionable but nonetheless exciting tale. Anchor 8¼x6 pb [5/2010] for $10.85 Anchor 7¾x5 pb [9/2010] for $10.85 Doubleday 9¼x6 hardcover [7/2009] for $16.50

"How Did They Ever Make A Movie of Facebook?" documentary [2011]
Strangely, this docufilm is not listed on IMDb, but IMDb has links for viewing it (in four parts); released February
2011 in Sherman Oaks, CA as part of pre-Oscar promotions for "The Social Network"; directed by David Prior
Part 1: Commencement • Part 2: Boston • Part 3: Los Angeles • Part 4: The Lot

jump to Major U.S. Companies, A to Z (now on Page Two)

Books

	"The Money Changers" [1908 classic] by Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] A novel about the Wall Street Panic of 1907, a financial disaster brought on deliberately by powerful banking barons intent upon the ruin of their rivals. Kindle Edition from Public Domain Books [6/2004 edition] for FREE! Dodo Press 8¾x5¾ pb [10/2007] for $1.50 {sic} Aegypan 9x6 hardcover [9/2006] for $24.95
	"The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901" [1934 classic] by Matthew Josephson Classic study of American capitalists who boldly seized economic power in America after the Civil War, including Carnegie, Frick, Gould, Morgan, Rockefeller & Vanderbilt Harcourt 8x5½ pb [6/62] for $12.75 Amereon 8¾x5¾ hardcover [6/40] for $34.95
	"The Origins of The American Business Corporation, 1784-1855: Broadening The Concept of Public Service During Industrialization" [1982] by Ronald E. Seavoy Greenwood Press 8¼x5¾ hardcover [2/82] for $126.95
	"Wildcatters: Texas Independent Oilmen" [1984] by Roger M. Olien & Diana Davids Hinton TAMU Press 9x6 pb [5/2007] for $12.89 Texas Monthly Press hardcover [9/84] out of print/used
	"A History of American Business, 2nd Edition" [1989 textbook] by Keith L. Bryant & Henry C. Dethloff Prentice Hall 8¾x6 facsimile edition pb [9/89] for $84.00
	"American Dreams: One Hundred Years of Business & Innovation From The Wall Street Journal" [1990] by Kenneth M. Morris, Marc Robinson & Richard Kroll Harry N. Abrams 11x9 hardcover [4/91] out of print/many used Harry N. Abrams 11x9 hardcover [1990] out of print/many used
	"United States Business History, 1602-1988: A Chronology" [1990] by Richard Robinson Greenwood Press 9½x6½ hardcover [9/90] for $133.95
	"Making America Corporate, 1870-1920" [1990] by Olivier Zunz Univ Chicago Press 9¼x6 pb [8/92] for $23.50 Univ Chicago Press hardcover [12/90] out of print/used
	"A History of Small Business In America" [1992] by Mansel G. Blackford Univ NC Press 2nd edition 9x6 pb [5/2003] for $24.26 Twayne Publng 8¾x5½ pb [2/92] out of print/used Twayne Publng 8½x5¾ hardcover [2/92] out of print/used
	"The Age of Giant Corporations: A Microeconomic History of American Business, 1914-1992" [orig 1972, rev 1993] by Robert Sobel Praeger 3rd edition 8¼x5½ pb [3/93] for $33.95 Greenwood Press 3rd edition 8¾x5¾ hardcover [3/93] out of print/used
	"Business Enterprise In American History" [1993 textbook] by Mansel G. Blackford & K. Austin Kerr PUB 3rd edition pb [8/93] for $57.27
	"King of The Wildcatters: The Life & Times of Tom Slick, 1883-1930" [1996] by Ray Miles T.A.M.U. Press 8¾x6 pb [6/2004] for $19.95 T.A.M.U. Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/96] out of print/used
	"Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed In Three Industrial Revolutions" [1998] by Thomas K. McCraw Harvard Univ Press 9x7 pb [1/98] for $35.09 Harvard Univ Press 9¼x7¼ hardcover [11/99] out of print/used
	"Guts: The Seven Laws of Business That Made Chrysler The World's Hottest Car Company" [1998 & 2003] by Robert A. Lutz Wiley & Sons rev & updated 9x6½ hardcover [9/2003] for $23.93 Wiley & Sons 8¾x6 pb [10/99] out of print/many used Wiley & Sons 9¼x6 hardcover [9/98] out of print/dozens used
	"The New York Times Century of Business" [1999] by Floyd Norris & Christine Bockelmann, Foreword by Paul A. Volcker McGraw-Hill 11x8¾ hardcover [9/99] out of print/many, many used
	"American Business, Since 1920: How It Worked" [2000] by {Pulitzer-winner} Thomas K. McCraw Harlan Davidson 8x5½ 2nd edition pb [1/2009] for $23.70 Harlan Davidson 8x5½ pb [3/2000] out of print/used
	"Colossus: How The Corporation Changed America" [2001] Edited by Jack Beatty Broadway Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/2001] out of print/many used
	"Wealth and Democracy: How Great Fortunes & Government Created America's Aristocracy" [2002] by Kevin Phillips listed in 'Los Angeles Times 100 Best Books of 2002' Broadway Books 9¼x6¼ pb [4/2003] for $11.87 Broadway Books hardcover [5/2002] for $20.97
	"The Marshall Fields: The Evolution of An American Business Dynasty" [2002] by Axel Madsen Department store baron Marshall Field's phenomenal wealth and generous philanthropy masked a disastrous personal life; the next five generations of the Field family is a startling saga of money, madness, and mystery. Wiley & Sons 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2002] for $23.10
	"Barons of Business: Their Lives and Lifestyles" [2002] by William G. Scheller Moguls on display (170 photos) include John Jacob Astor, Andrew Carnegie, Jim Clark, Walt Disney, George Eastman, Larry Ellison, Henry Clay Frick, Bill Gates, John Hancock, J.P. Morgan, Steven Spielberg, and Cornelius Vanderbilt Universe 13x11 hardcover [10/2002] out of print/used
	"How Corporations Hurt Us All: Saving Our Rights, Democracy, Institutions, and Our Future" [2003] by Dan Butts Trafford Publng 10½x8 pb [3/2003] for $22.00
	"The Change Makers: From Carnegie to Gates - How The Great Entrepreneurs Transformed Ideas Into Industries" [2003] by Maury Klein Examines 26 famous industrialists & entrepreneurs, including Warren Buffett, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Ray Kroc (McDonald's), Robert Noyce (Intel), retailer J.C. Penney, John D. Rockefeller, Alfred Sloan (General Motors), Cornelius Vanderbilt, retailer Sam Walton, and retailer John Wanamaker Holt 8¾x5¾ pb [2004] out of print/used Times Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/2003] out of print/used
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	"An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power, 1607-2001" [2004] by John Steele Gordon "[a] fresh, interesting, and informative . . . economic biography of our country" Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [11/2005] for $10.37 HarperCollins 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2004] for $16.98
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	"The Myth of The Robber Barons: A New Look At The Rise of Big Business In America" [orig 1987, rev 2007] by Burton W. Folsom, Jr., Foreword by Forrest McDonald The entrepreneurs studied are James J. Hill, Andrew Mellon, John D. Rockefeller, Charles Schwab, the Scranton family, and Cornelius Vanderbilt Young America's Foundation 6th edition 9x6 pb [2007] for $9.95
	"Leviathan: The History of Whaling In America" [2007] by Eric Jay Dolin W.W. Norton 8x5½ pb [7/2008] for $10.85 W.W. Norton 9¼x6 deckle-edge hardcover [7/2007] for $18.45 author's official website
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	"Historical Encyclopedia of American Business" in 3 volumes [2009] Edited by Richard L. Wilson Salem Press 11½x9½ library hardcover [4/2009] for $364.00 {sic} Volume 1: Accounting to Google Salem Press 10¼x8¼ library hardcover [4/2009] for $121.33 Volume 2: Gould to Secret Service Salem Press 10¼x8¼ library hardcover [4/2009] for $122.00 Volume 3: Securities to Zoning Salem Press 10¼x8¼ library hardcover [4/2009] for $122.00
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	"Life, Inc: How Corporatism Conquered The World, and How We Can Take It Back" [2009] by Douglas Rushkoff Random House 8x5½ pb [1/2011] for $10.88 Random House 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/2009] out of print/many used
	"The Story of American Business: From the Pages of The New York Times" [2009] Edited by Nancy F. Koehn Harvard Business Press 9¼x7¾ hardcover [10/2009] for $20.21
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	"Brewing Up A Business: Adventures In Beer From The Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery" [2011] by Sam Calagione Author is founder & owner of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware and Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware; he has won several national business awards, and is the star of Discovery Channel's new show "Brew Masters". Wiley & Sons 2nd edition 9x6 pb [2/2011] for $11.19
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	"Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than   You Do and What You Can Do About It" [2011] by Jeffrey D. Clements, Foreword by Bill Moyers "The definitive guide to overturning Citizens United" Kindle Edition from Berrett-Koehler Publrs [11/2011] for $8.99 Berrett-Koehler Publrs 8½x5½ pb [1/2012] for $11.45

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