American made
Subtitle: shapers of the American economy
By: Harold C. Livesay
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780205202294
Subjects: Business enterprises; Entrepreneurship; Businesspeople; Biography; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The artist of his country: Eli Whitney; title: The grim reaper: Cyrus Hall McCormick; title: The star-spangled Scotchman: Andrew Carnegie; title: The most useful American: Thomas A. Edison; title: The insolent charioteer: Henry Ford; title: The patriarchal pioneer: Pierre S. Du Pont; title: The organization man: Alfred P. Sloan; title: Avatar of the worldwide car: Henry Ford II; title: The philosopher scientist: Edwin Land; title: And so it goes: burgers, bargains, and bytes; title: Of things past and things to come.