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  • Joseph P. Day: The Great Salesman

    de Daniel Alef ...
    Joseph P. Day, the great salesman, sold about a third of the Bronx, a third of Queens and large swaths of Brooklyn during his lifetime. In one 12-hour auction he sold 1,574 properties. Day was the quintessential New Yorker. Day's story is a text-book lesson on what it takes to become a great salesman, and his 10 rules for success a menu on the qualities and characteristics he espoused. ... Leer más

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  • Andrew Carnegie: Prince Of Steel And Libraries

    de Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Andrew Carnegie, one of the wealthiest American tycoons of the Gilded Age, the late 19th century when America's moguls amassed great fortunes and lived extravagant lifestyles. Countless books and articles refer to Carnegie as a "robber baron." A few hail him as one of America's greatest industrialists and philanthropists, a man who gave away more than 300 million before his ... Leer más

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  • Amelia Earhart: Never in Man's Shadow

    de Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Amelia Earhart. Earhart's disappearance has mesmerized the American public ever since her fateful around-the-world flight in 1937. However, the public's fascination with Lady Lindy began long before her disappearance as she ventured into what was an almost exclusively male domain: airplanes and flight, flaunting convention with panache. This is her story. ... Leer más

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  • Benjamin Franklin: The New Prometheus

    de Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Benjamin Franklin, the most famous and highly regarded American in Europe during colonial times and the Revolutionary War. One of the Founding Fathers, Franklin was instrumental in virtually every phase of the birth, creation and establishment of the United States. However, Franklin was a man of many talents, a true American Leonardo da Vinci who excelled in many fields. ... Leer más

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  • J.P. Morgan: America's Greatest Banker

    de Daniel Alef ...
    Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were staunch opponents of a national bank. When President Jackson let the charter of the second bank lapse after 20 years it left the nation unprepared and powerless to respond quickly or effectively to major economic declines or emergencies. J. Pierpont Morgan became America's central bank initiating monetary policies that saved the nation from a severe ... Leer más

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  • Henry Ford: An American Icon

    de Daniel Alef ...
    New Enhanced Digital EditionHenry Ford an American folk hero to many was a man with several faces. He was a genius who revolutionized the automobile industry irrevocably altered American culture and commerce developed mass production and helped the middle class emerge in America. He was also an anti-Semitic autocrat who hated Wall Street bankers and financiers with unmitigated passion. Ford paid ... Leer más

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  • Jack L. Warner: Last Of The Hollywood Empire Builders

    de Daniel Alef ...
    Jack Warner epitomized the great Hollywood studio chief. He was admired as much as he was feared, engaged in battles with some of Hollywood's greatest legends from Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney to Olivia de Havilland and Bette Davis. Under his tutelage Warner Bros. gave us some of the most memorable and iconic movies, including The Jazz Singer, Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Damn ... Leer más

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  • Margaret Tobin "Molly" Brown: Titanic Survivor Pursued Social Reforms

    de Daniel Alef ...
    New Enhanced Digital EditionAlthough Margaret "The Unsinkable Molly" Brown is well known for her heroic efforts in surviving the Titanic disaster that historic event doesn't begin to reveal the full measure of who she was or what she accomplished during her fascinating life. And Margaretthe name "Molly" was a Hollywood inventionwas the subject of as many myths as Aesop had fables. The real ... Leer más

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  • Mark Zuckerberg: The Face Behind Facebook And Social Networking

    de Daniel Alef ...
    Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder of Facebook, is the youngest self-made billionaire in history. He is also considered by many to be one of the most influential persons in the information age. His impact on American culture is virtually unprecedented. The recent film, "Social Network" does not portray him in the kindest light, but is it a work of fact or fiction? Separating fiction from ... Leer más

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  • William Randolph Hearst: Media Myth and Mystique

    de Daniel Alef ...
    William Randolph Hearst was a man of mythical proportions and staggering contradictions. And he was a fascinating character so much so that he appears in various fictional works from John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon" to Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" as if his life was not sufficiently bizarre in its own right. At its peak Hearst's media empire included ... Leer más

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  • Walter Chrysler: Doctor Of Sick Automobile Companies

    de Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of one of America's iconic automobile pioneers, Walter Chrysler, a man Time magazine described as a "doctor of sick automobile companies." The Chrysler Building in New York, topped by its world-famous art deco tower, an enduring symbol of America's industrial evolution, is also a standing tribute to its namesake. Walter Chrysler was a monumental pioneer in the automobile ... Leer más

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  • Will Keith Kellogg: The Breakfast King

    de Daniel Alef ...
    In 1894, Will K. Kellogg was experimenting with a more digestible form of wheat for patients at his brother John's Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan. Will mixed a wheat paste and accidentally let it stand overnight. In the morning he took the tempered remains, put them through a roller, and each grain emerged as a wide, thin flake. The flakes were a big hit with the patients -- C.W. Post, a ... Leer más

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