American made
Subtitle: shapers of the American economy
By: Harold C. Livesay.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Pearson-Longman
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography.; Entrepreneurship -- United States -- History.; Business enterprises -- United States -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: x, 326 p. : 21 cm
Notes: Subtitle of 1979 ed.: men who shaped the American economy.
Includes index.
Table of contents: 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