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ACKERMAN, C. V.

GEORGE EASTMAN". Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Pp. xviii, 522.

Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

BARKER, Preston V.

CHARLES GOODYEAR, CONNECTICUT YANKEE AND RUBBER PIONEER: A BIOGRAPHY. Boston* r r i v a t e l y printed by Bodfrey L. Cabot, I n c . , 194-0. Pp. 109.


BENSON, A. L.

THE NEW HENRY POED. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1923. Pp. 360.


BURTON, Katherine

ANCHORS IN TWO CONTINENTS, THE LIFE OF V. R. GRACE. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1941. Pp. 320


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FLINT, C. R.

MEMORIES OF AN ACTIVE LIFE. New YorkPutnam*s, 1923.

Financial h i s tory


HAGEDOHN, H.

BROOKINGS: A BIOGRAPHY, New York: Macmillan, 1936. Pp* x i , 334*

Narration of l i f e of founder of Brookings Ins t i tu t ion (covering period 1850-1932)*

Chaps, describing h i s a id to Washington Univ. and founding of I n s t i t u t i o n in Washington*

The author of book, has wri t ten numerous volumes on Theodore Roosevelt* He had fu l l access to family papers and ass is tance of Dr. H.G* Moulton


HILLYER, V. H.

JAMES TALCOTT, MERCHANT, AND HIS TIMES. Nev York: Scr ibner 's , 1937.

Pp. 197.


HOLBBOOK, Stewart H.

JAMES J. HILL. A Great Life in Brief. New Xork: Knopf, May 1955.


JAMES, Marquis

ALFRED du PONT: THE FAMILY REBEL. 1 9 ^ .


JENNINGS, Walter Wilson (Ph.D., University of Kentucky)

A DOZEN CAPTAINS OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY. New York: Vantage Press, Inc., 1955.


JEMINGS, Walter Wilson

20 Giants of American Bus iness : Biographica l Sketches i n E conomicKi s t o ry


KILMAN, E. and Wright, Theon

HUGH ROY CULLEN: A STORY OF AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1954. Pp. viii, 376.


LANE, Wheaton J .

COMMODORE VANDERBILT.


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LEWIS, 0.

THE BIG FOUR: THE STORY OF HUNTINGTON, STANFORD, HOPKINS AND CROCKER, AND OF THE BUILDING OF THE CENTRAL PACIFIC. New York: Knopf, 1938. Pp. xi, 418.

Review: by D. L. Kemmerer, AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW,

XXVIII, Dec, 1938, pp. 777-78.


MCCORMICK, C.

THE CENTURY OF THE REAPER: AN ACCOUNT OF CYRUS HALL McCORMICK, THE INVENTOR OF THE REAPER. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. Pp. xiv, 307.


MILLER, William, Editor

MSi IN BUSINESS—ESSAYS IN THE HISTOPY OF ENTREPRENEUtfSHIP. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. Pp.ix, 352.


NEVINS, Allan

JOHN D. POCKEFELLER, THE HEROIC AGE OF AMERICAN ENTERPRISE. 2 Vols. Nev York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Pp. xiii, 683; x, 747.

Reviev: by Edward Jtirkland, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, Vol. I, no. 1, May, 1941, pp. 98-9.


POUND, A. and MOORE, S. T. (eds.)

THEY TOLD BARRON: CONVERSATIONS AND REVELATIONS OF AN AMERICAN PEPYS IN WALL STREET, THE NOTES OF THE LATE CLARENCE V. BARRON. New York: Harper, 1930.

Pp. xxxiii, 372.


PROUT, H. G.

A LIFE OF GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE. New York: Scribner's, 1921. Pp. xi, 375.


RATNER, Sidney (editor)

NEW LIGHT ON THE HISTORY OF GREAT AMERICAN FORTUNES: AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES OF 1892 and 1902.

N.X., Augustus M., Kelley, Inc., 1953.


SLOAN, Alfred P., Jr.

ADVENTURES OF A VHITE-COLLAR MAN. New York: Doubleday7 Doran, 1941. Pp. 208.


TARBELL, Ida M.

OWEN D. YOUNG: A NEW TYPE OF INDUSTRIAL LEADER. New York: Macmillan, 1932, Pp. xiv, 353.


TAUSSIG, F. V. and JOSLYN, C.S.

AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS: A STUDY IN SOCIAL ORIGINS AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION. New York: Macmillan, 1932. Pp. xiv, 319.

Review: by F. B. Garver, AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, XXIII, June, 1933, pp. 273-30.

inquiry into relative influence of inherited ability and environment as they affect the competition of men of the different income classes for top posts in business and for wealth—statistical analysis Does not contain studies of outstanding individual business leaders.


TAUSSIG, F. W. and JOSLYN, C. S.

AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS. New York: 1932.


WINKLER, J. K.

THE DU PONT DYNASTY. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1935. Pp. 333.

du Ponts


UPSHUR, G. L.

AS I RECALL THEM—MEMORIES OF CROWDED YEARS. New York: Wilson-Erickson, 1936• Pp. 282.

Early years spent in West* Confidential secretary to James C. Flood—through him knew Bonanza kings—John W. Mackay, James G* Fair, William S. O^rien; comments on Collis ?. Huntington; Leland Stanford, Wm. C. Ralston and Darius 0. Mills*

Came to NYC in 1881, founder of Natl* Petroleum Exchange reminiscences of elder Morgan, Rockefeller, Stillman, Senator Wm. A. Clark, Schwab and Frick.


¥INKLER, John K.

FIVE AND TEN—THE FABULOUS LIFE OF F. ¥. VOOLWORTH. New York* Robert M. McBride & Co., 1940. Pp. 251.

Review: by Herluf V. Olsen, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, I, May, 1941, pp. 110-1.


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