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Great estates : the lifestyles and homes of American magnates

Title
Great estates : the lifestyles and homes of American magnates / William G. Scheller.
Author
Scheller, William G.
Publication
New York : Universe, [2009], ©2009.

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Description
240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 33 cm
Alternative Title
Barons of business
Subjects
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Ch.1. The Yankee Ships Were Everywhere -- The Hancocks -- Harrison Gray Otis -- Elias Hasket Derby -- The Crowninshields -- The Brown Brothers -- John Jacob Astor -- The du Ponts of Delaware -- Ch. 2. The Glided Age -- Cornelius Vanderbilt -- Railroad Giants -- William Cornelius Van Horne -- Jay Gould -- Edward Henry Harriman -- J. P. Morgan -- Andrew Carnegie -- Henry Clay Frick -- John Davison Rockefeller -- Retail Magnates -- Joseph Pulitzer -- Ch. 3. Titans of the Early Twentieth Century -- William Randolph Hearst -- Henry Ford -- Walter P. Chrysler -- George Eastman -- Hollywood Moguls -- Walt Disney -- Howard Hughes -- Henry Flagler -- John Ringlinc -- James Deering -- Ch. 4. Modern Moguls -- David Sarnoff -- William S. Paley -- Ted Turner -- Malcolm Forbes -- Sam Walton -- Warren Buffett -- Steven Spielberg -- George Lucas -- High-Tech Giants -- Larry Ellison -- Jim Clark -- Bill Gates.
ISBN
  • 9780789399595 (hbk.)
  • 0789399598 (hbk.)
LCCN
99934508096
OCLC
  • ocn271772850
  • 271772850
  • SCSB-5484131
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries