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U.S. Business Pages
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"The business of corporate America is no longer business – it is finance."
— Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, 2016

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 – the G.O.P. Economic Meltdown of 2008.

575 out of the world’s 2000 largest companies are based in the U.S.A. [2022]

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;U.S. Business Leaders & Crooks
here on Page One, Part 1:    •    John Deere [1804-86]    •    Henry Ford [1863-1947]    •    E. Haldeman-Julius [1889-1951]    •    Hugh Hefner [1926-2017]    •    links

on Page One, Part 2:    •    Steve Jobs [1955-2011]    •    Kirk Kerkorian [1917-2015]    •    Henry Luce [1898-1967]    •    Elon Musk [b. 1971]    •   
J.C. Penney [1895-1971]    •    T. Boone Pickens [1928-2019]    •    John D. Rockefeller [1839-1937]    •    Martha Stewart [b. 1941]    •   
Cornelius Vanderbilt [1794-1877]    •    The Wright Brothers    •    Mark Zuckerberg [b. 1984]    •    and many others ...

people with their own pages:
P.T. Barnum [1810-91]    •    Warren Buffett [b. 1930]    •    'Buffalo Bill' Cody [1846-1917]    •    Walt Disney [1901-66]    •    Thomas Edison [1847-1931]   •
Henry M. Flagler [1830-1913]    •    Fred Harvey [1836-1901]    •    William Randolph Hearst [1863-1951]    •    Howard R. Hughes [1905-76]   •
Thomas H. Ince [1882-1924]    •    The Koch Brothers    •    George Pullman [1831-97]    •    The Studebaker Brothers    •    Preston Tucker [1903-56]   •
Ted Turner [b. 1938]    •    George Westinghouse, Jr. [1846-1914]

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on Page Two:   Major U.S. Companies, A to Z
Amazon, Inc. [est. 1994]    •    Apple, Inc. [est. 1975]    •    Ben & Jerry's [est. 1978]
Enron [1986-2002]    •    Google, Inc. [est. 1998]    •    IKEA [est. 1943]    •    McDonald's [est. 1940]   •
Microsoft [est. 1975]    •    Monsanto [est. 1901]    •    The New York Times    •    Sizzler Restaurants [est. 1958]   •
Starbucks Coffee [est. 1971]    •    Tupperware [est. 1946]    •    TimeWarner [est. 19xx]    •    Verizon [est. 1994]   •
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. [est. 1962]    •   Wikipedia [est. 2001]    •   and many more . . .

on Page Three:   books   •   magazines & newspapers

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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 Page at Maison d'Être 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

	"The Olympians: A Tribute To Tall Sun-Crowned Men" [1921] by Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915] BiblioLife 8x5 pb [10/2008] out of print/used BiblioLife 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2019] for $22.95 available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive chapters/topics include Aristotle, {Ralph Waldo} Emerson, explorer Henry Hudson, Victor Hugo, {Robert G.} Ingersoll, Andrew Lang, French polymath Gustave Le Bon, Maurice Maeterlinck, Plutarch, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Jacques Rousseau, {Henry David} Thoreau, and {Count Leo} Tolstoy
	"Profiles of Genius: Thirteen Creative Men Who Changed The World" [1993] by Gene N. Landrum Kindle Edition from Prometheus Books [1993 edition] for $9.59 Prometheus Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [5/93] for $16.76 Subjects/chapters are "thirteen iconoclastic individuals who have demonstrated a unique ability to deal with change in the world and redefine it for their own purposes": Marcel Bich (Bic), Nolan Bushnell (Atari), William Gates III (Microsoft), Howard Head (Head Ski), Soichiro Honda (Honda), Steven Jobs (Apple Computer), Arthur Jones (Nautilus), William Lear (Lear Jet), Tom Monaghan (Domino's Pizza), Akio Morita (Sony), Solomon Price (The Price Club), Fred Smith (Federal Express), and Ted Turner (C.N.N.)
	"Profiles of Power and Success: Fourteen Geniuses Who Broke The Rules" [1996] by Gene N. Landrum, PhD Kindle Edition from Prometheus Books [1996 edition] for $9.59 Prometheus Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/96] out of print/used Subjects/virtues examined include Creativity, Influence, Intuition, Personality, Power, Rebellion, Risk-Taking, Self-Esteem, Tenacity, Will & Energy, and Work Ethic, thru the examples of Napoleon Bonaparte, Marquis de Sade, movie tycoon Walt Disney, dancer Isadora Duncan, aviator Amelia Earhart, Adolf Hitler, billionaire Howard Hughes, educator Maria Montessori, news mogul Rupert Murdoch, singer Edith Piaf, Pablo Picasso, Helena Rubinstein, visionary Nikola Tesla, and architect Frank Lloyd Wright

"Money & Power" TV special [Showtime Networks March 2001] 2-hour TV documentary about some of the greatest innovators in the history of business Co-produced & directed by David Grubin; narrated by Jason Robards Jr.; featuring Cosimo de Medici, Henry Ford, Bill Gates (Microsoft), King Philip II, Henry Luce (Time, Inc.), J.P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the XIIth Century monk St. Godric, the Warner Brothers, James Watt & Matthew Boulton, Robert Woodruff (Coca-Cola), and others VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • bare credits at IMDb

"Money and Power: The History of Business" [2001] by Howard Means, Foreword by David Grubin based on the Showtime/CNBC documentary TV special Wiley 8¾x5½ pb [4/2002] out of print/40+ used Wiley 9¾x6½ hardcover [1/2001] out of print/60+ used

	"Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and The Empires They Built" [2001] by Richard S. Tedlow Chapters/subjects include Andrew Carnegie, George Eastman, Henry Ford, Robert Noyce, Charles Revson, Sam Walton & Thomas J. Watson Sr. HarperBusiness Bargain Price 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2003] for $7.18 HarperBusiness 8x5¼ pb [7/2003] for $13.98 HarperCollins 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2001] out of print/many used
	"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
	"Icons of Business: An Encyclopedia of Mavericks, Movers, and Shakers" [2006] by Kateri Drexler 24 entrepreneurs, executives, and mavericks whose influence extends beyond business into society at large, including Ben and Jerry (ice cream), Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, Lee Iacocca, Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines), Phil Knight, Anita Roddick (Body Shop), Martha Stewart, Donald Trump, Ted Turner, Sam Walton, and Oprah Winfrey Greenwood Press 10¼x7 hardcover [12/2006] 2 volumes for $191.00 {sic}
	"The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California" [2007] by Richard Rayner Four middle-class merchants in Sacramento, California rose to become the force behind the Trans-continental Railroad and became wealthy beyond any measure, and committed secret crimes to sustain their power. Their names were Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins, and they were known as 'The Big Four' or 'The Associates' Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton [1/2009] for $9.99 W.W. Norton pb [1/2009] for $12.83 W.W. Norton/Atlas 8¼x5¾ hardcover [2007] out of print/used

"World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business As We Knew It" [2011] by John A. Byrne Kindle Edition from Portfolio [12/2011] for $12.99 Portfolio Hardcover 9x6¼ hardcover [12/2011] for $16.39 The founding entrepreneurs and their 25 companies: Amazon, Inc. [est. 1994] {Jeff Bezos}; Apple, Inc. [est. 1975] (Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak}; Dell, Inc. {Michael Dell}; Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette; E.B.X. Group of Brasil; Facebook, Inc. [est. 2004] {Mark Zuckerberg}; Federal Express Corp. [est. 1971] {Frederick W. Smith}; Google, Inc. [est. 1996] {Larry Page & Sergey Brin}; Grameen Bank [est. 1976] of Bangladesh; Harpo, Inc. {Oprah Winfrey}; The Home Depot [est. 1978]; Infosys of India; Kohler Co. [est. 1873]; LinkedIn [est. 2002]; Microsoft, Inc. [est. 1975] {Bill Gates & Paul Allen}; Netflix [est. 1997]; Nike [est. 1964]; Rio de Janiero Organizing Committee For The Olympic Games; The Charles Schwab Corp. [est. 1971]; Southwest Airlines [est. 1967]; Starbucks [est. 1971]; Tata Group of India; Turner Broadcasting [est. 1976] {Ted Turner}; Virgin Group [est. 1972] {Richard Branson}; and Whole Foods Market [1980] {John Mackey}

"Captains of Industry: In Their Own Words" [2014] Edited by Jack Donahue Ten essays from American & British leaders & critics: showman P.T. Barnum, John Graham Brooks, G.K. Chesterton, Henry Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winner Burton J. Hendrick, educator Willard Eugene Hotchkiss, Frederick L. Lipman (president Wells Fargo Bank), John D. Rockefeller, journalist Albert Shaw PhD, and Mark Twain Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [3/2014] for $4.99 CreateSpace 9x6 pb [3/2014] for $9.99

"American Titans" TV mini-series [AHC-TV Aug-Sept 2015] Six little-known stories of the men who made America what it is today: Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, Edison, Stanford, and Hearst (sic); their ferocious drive, innovation, and often sheer recklessness took them from obscurity to the top of the list of rich and powerful men. Episode titles: "Carnegie vs. Frick" (steel & coal), "Rockefeller vs. Scott" (petroleum), "Edison vs. Tesla" (AC-DC current), "Clark vs. Daly" (Montana copper), "Vanderbilt vs. Drew" (Erie Railroad), and "Hearst vs. Pulitzer" (New York newspapers) DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • Amazon Instant Video [8/2015] series purchase $9.99 confused credits at IMDb • official movie website

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

showman Phineas Taylor 'P.T.' Barnum [1810-91]

Spirit of America Bookstore's P.T. Barnum Page

"The Greatest Showman On Earth" [Fox 2017?]
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

billionaire Michael 'Mike' Bloomberg [b. 1942]
founded Bloomberg L.P. in 1981
former Republican mayor of New York, 2002-2013
2020 Democratic presidential candidate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg + http://www.mikebloomberg.com/

Spirit of America Bookstore's
capitalist Warren Buffett [b. 1930] 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/
http://www.amazon.com/Empires-Industry-Carnegie-History-Channel/dp/B000BKVL7A/

restaurant tycoon Clifford Clinton [1900-69]
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 Trains Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

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'Être 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] of 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

oil & land baron Henry M. Flagler [1830-1913]
major figure in the Standard Oil monopoly
hotel & land baron in South Florida
built the Florida East Coast Railway [est. 1881] to the Florida Keys

Spirit of America's Henry Flagler 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

"Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City" [2009] by Greg Grandin In 1927, Henry Ford purchased a chunk of jungle twice the size of Delaware along the Amazon River in Brasil. The original purpose was to set up a rubber plantation, which evolved into an experiment involving direct exportation of the American lifestyle; book was Amazon Best of The Month in June 2009. Picador 8¼x5½ pb [4/2010] for $10.88 Metropolitan Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/2009] for $17.39

"Post-Fordlândia" 20-minute documentary film [2011] /tt2061777/

"Fordlandia" [River Road Ent. 2013?]
Announced 8/2012: Bill Pohlad & Sarah Hammer are producing, Ben Coccio will adapt from
Greg Grandin's book • not yet listed at IMDb

"Fordlândia 1928" [I.F.D. Brasil 2013?] Filmed in Brasil & Detroit, Michigan; in Portuguese language; a dramatic romance between a woman fighting for the rights of the workers and an American businessman; Co-written & directed by Emerson Muzeli; 'rumored' cast {8/2012} includes Javier Bardem, Peter Mullan, Dolores Chaplin, Ana Paula Arósio, Emiliano Ruschel, Larissa Vereza, Monique Alfradique, Brett Leigh DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site

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 'Erector® Sets' fansite

razor blade baron King C. Gillette [1855-1932]

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

railroad 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]

publisher Emanuel Haldeman-Julius [1889-1951] of Girard, Kansas
entry at Wikipedia • official company website
first wife Anna Marcet Haldeman [1887-1941]

		"The Militant Agnostic" [orig 1926] by E. Haldeman-Julius Author declared war on the enemies of freethought with this wide-ranging, candid, and humorous collection of articles and essays attacking organized religion in its various forms, covering many serious issues still of vital concern to us today, including fundamentalists' attacks on science and culture, extremism, and the debate over religious instruction in public schools. Prometheus Books 8½x5½ pb [7/95] out of print/used
		"The World of Haldeman-Julius" [1960] Compiled by Albert Mordell, Foreword by Harry Golden, text mostly by E. Haldeman-Julius Twayne Publrs hardcover [1960] out of print/scarce
		"Publisher For The Masses: Emanuel Haldeman-Julius" biography [2018] by Prof. R. Alton Lee Based in Girard, Kansas, Haldeman-Julius and his publishing company covered socialist politics, the philosophy of free thought, and both new and classic books marketed to ordinary Americans, including the "Little Blue Book" series of classics in Western thought and literature. Kindle Edition from Bison Books [2/2018] for $18.72 {sic} Bison Books 9x6¼ hardcover [2/2018] for $19.71

        
Haldeman-Julius and his wife Marcet created a series of pamphlets known as 'Little Blue Books' that mostly sold for five cents each, or were given out with Bull Durham tobacco.
Total sales ran into the hundreds of millions of copies. The series began in 1919 as The Appeal's Pocket Series with red or yellow covers, and continued as
The People's Pocket Series, Appeal Pocket Series, Ten Cent Pocket Series, Five Cent Pocket Series, Pocket Series, and finally as Little Blue Books
from 1923 (as well as many Big Blue Books). There were at least 1,900 titles from 1919 to 1976.
entry at Wikipedia
Jake's Little Blue Books bibliography website [est. 2019]

A search at Internet Archive on keywords 'Haldeman+Julius' returns over 300 free online flipbooks
from among the 1,900 titles of their "Little Blue Books" series.

'Big Blue Books' Collection at Pittsburg State University Digital Commons - covers & text of 48 titles
Haldeman-Julius Photograph Collection, 1889-1968 at Pittsburg State University Digital Commons
March 2019 symposium at Pittsburg State University Digital Commons

		"The Essence of Buddhism" [LBB# B-322; 1922] Compiled by E.M. Bowden originally published as "The Buddhist Philosophy of Life" #322 of the Ten Cent Pocket Series 44-page Kindle Edition from CreateSpace [3/2012] for 99¢ 65-page Kindle Edition from Prabhat Prakashan [1/2017] for $2.00 44-page CreateSpace 9x6 pb [11/2014] for $5.99 34-page S.M.K. Books 9¼x6 pb [5/2013] for $10.62 34-page S.M.K. Books 9¼x6 hardcover [4/2018] for $9.99 more on this topic on Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore's Zen Dept. Page
		"My First Twenty-Five Years: Instead of A Footnote, An Autobiography" [LBB# B-788; 1949] by Emmanuel Haldeman-Julius Haldeman-Julius Publns pb [1949] out of print/scarce
		"My Second Twenty-Five Years: Instead of A Footnote, An Autobiography" [LBB# B-814; 1949] by Emmanuel Haldeman-Julius Haldeman-Julius Publns pb [1949] out of print/scarce
		"Haldeman-Julius and Upton Sinclair: The Amazing Record of A Long Collaboration" [LBB# B-850; 1950] by Albert Mordell Haldeman-Julius Publns 8½x5½ pb [1950] out of print/scarce visit Spirit of America Bookstore's Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] Page
		"Frank Harris and Haldeman-Julius: The Record of A Series of Quarrels Without Equal In The Annals of American Letters" [LBB# B-873; 1950] by Albert Mordell Literary Licensing, LLC 9x6 pb [10/2011] for $20.95 Literary Licensing, LLC 9x6 hardcover [7/2011] for $35.95
		"Clarence Darrow, Eugene V. Debs, and Haldeman-Julius: Incidents In The Career of An Author, Editor, and Publisher" [LBB# B-907; 1950] by Albert Mordell Haldeman-Julius Publns 8½x5½ pb [1950] out of print/scarce also visit Spirit of America Bookstore's Eugene V. Debs [1855-1926] Page
		"The Facts About Fascism: Little Blue Book #1087" [1926] by Miriam Allen deFord [1888-1975] original publisher Haldeman-Julius Co. [1919-76] and their "Little Blue Book" series 41-page Kindle Edition from indep [5/2012] for 99¢ also visit Working Minds Philosophy's Fascism & Barbarians Pages
		"The Truth About Mussolini: Little Blue Book #1088" [1926] by Miriam Allen deFord [1888-1975] original publisher Haldeman-Julius Co. [1919-76] and their "Little Blue Book" series 64-page Haldeman-Julius Co. 5x3½ pb [1926] long out of print/used also visit Working Minds Philosophy's Benito Mussolini [1883-1945] Page

Publisher Haldeman-Julius placed full-page ads in pulp magazines and on the backs of comic books for a complete high school education for only $2.98, delivered C.O.D., circa 1928; the sixty listed booklets averaged 60 pages each, and the selections are interesting, and so they are listed here in detail • "Sixty volumes, 3,485 pages, 825,000 words" I. ENGLISH 1. English Faults 2. Spelling Guide, 1925 3. Grammar Guide, 1924 4. Punctuation Guide, 1924 5. Words Pronounced, 1925 6. Conversation Helps 7. Vocabulary Helps 8. Letter Writing 9. Preparing Manuscripts Properly 10. "How To Argue Logically"       by Schopenhauer, 1920 II. HISTORY 11. United States 12. Story of The American       Revolution 13. U.S. Civil War 14. Lives of The Presidents, 1926 15. U.S. Dry-Law III. LITERATURE 16. Facts To Know About The       Classics, 1927 17. 100 Books To Read 18. Reading Guide IV. THE ARTS 19. Painting Facts 20. Sculpture Facts 21. Music Facts 22. Musical Terms 23. Architecture Facts V. LANGUAGES 24. Latin Self-Taught 25. French Self-Taught 26. Spanish Self-Taught 27. German Self-Taught VI. BUSINESS 28. Economics (Wealth) 29. How Wall Street Works 30. U.S. Commercial Geography 31. Commercial Law 32. Business Letters 33. Typewriting Guide 34. How To Write Telegrams VII. SCIENCE 35. Chemistry Self-Taught, 1923 36. Physics Self-Taught, 1926 37. Astronomy Self-Taught 38. Psychology Self-Taught, 1924 39. Riddle of Human Behavior 40. Evolution Explained 41. Great Scientists 42. Zoology Self-Taught 43. Woodworking VIII. MATHEMATICS 44. Plane Geometry 45. Curiosities of Mathematics 46. Arithmetic (1), 1925 47. Arithmetic (2), 1925 IX. REFERENCE MANUALS 48. Quotations 49. Shakespeare's Lines, 1924 50. Classical Mythology, 1924 51. Biblical Allusions 52. Foreign Words, 1925 53. Famous Authors 54. Gazeteer X. GENERAL HELPS 55. How To Get A Liberal       Education 56. Self-Development 57. Comments On Life 58. How To Study XI. QUIZZES 59. What Do You Know?       (Questions) 60. General Information (Quizzes)

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 & publisher Hugh M. Hefner [1926-2017]
listed #33 (tied) on The Atlantic Monthly's Top 100 Most Influential Figures in American History [Dec 2006]
Opened the first Playboy Club in 1960 ; the brand faded over time, with magazine circulation dropping from a peak of seven million in the '70s to 800,000 in 2015.
"The Playboy Philosophy" [1962-63] at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
U.S.C.’s Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive

youngest son Cooper Hefner

http://www.amazon.com/Bachelors-Bunnies-Sexual-Politics-Playboy/dp/0226670066/
"Bunny: The Real Story of Playboy" [Corgi U.K. 1985] by Russell Miller ISBN 0-03-063748-1
"Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion" [Running Press 2006] by Izabella St. James ISBN 0-7624-2739-6
http://www.amazon.com/Hefs-Little-Black-Book-Hefner/dp/006218430X/ by
"Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and The American Dream" [Wiley & Sons 2008] by Steven Watts
http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Playboy-Hefner-American-Dream/dp/0470521678/
http://www.amazon.com/Playboy-Complete-Centerfolds-Chronicle-Books/dp/0811860914/
http://www.amazon.com/Years-Playboy-Bunny-Josh-Robertson/dp/0811872262/

"Hugh Hefner: American Playboy Revisited (TV 1998) /tt0414123/
docufilm by Kevin Burns = VHS/DVD not avail 2012

"The Bunny Years: Inside the Playboy Empire [VHS] (TV 1999) /tt0346673/
http://www.amazon.com/Buuny-Years-Inside-Playboy-Empire/dp/0767018958/

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

Announced 3/2012: The long-in-development (at Universal) "Playboy" biopic about the magazine’s
founder Hugh Hefner is now being produced by Warner Bros. and Jerry Weintraub.

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]

"The Hiltons" [Grand Central 2014] by J. Randy Taraborrelli
http://www.amazon.com/The-Hiltons-Story-American-Dynasty/dp/1455516694/

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