Title: The entrepreneurs : an American adventure /
Authors: Sobel, Robert, 1931 February 19-1999.; Sicilia, David B.; Chandler, Alfred D. 1918-2007,
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,
Year: 1986
Subjects: Technological innovations United States History; Inventions United States History; Entrepreneurship History; Industries United States History
Abstract: Thomas Edison -- King Gilette -- Adolph Zukor -- Mary Kay Ash -- Frederick Weyerhaeuser -- Frank Purdue -- John D. Rockefeller -- De Witt Clinton -- J.P. Morgan -- Alfred P. Sloan -- Samuel Colt -- Andrew Carnegie -- Henry Ford -- P.T. Barnum -- A.T. Stewart -- Montgomery Ward -- Samuel F.B. Morse -- David Sarnoff.
Contents: I: Entrepreneurs -- II: Land and its people -- III: Expanding America -- IV: Made in America -- V: Giving 'em what they want -- VI: Instant America.