Men Who Are Making America - Couverture souple

Forbes, B. C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1428631968 ISBN 13 : 9781428631960

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing Co, 2006

Synopsis

Men Who Are Making America is a book written by B.C. Forbes, the founder of Forbes magazine. The book is a collection of biographical sketches of some of the most influential men in American history, who have contributed to the growth and development of the country. The book covers a wide range of fields, including business, politics, science, and the arts. Some of the notable figures featured in the book include Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie. The book provides an insight into the lives and achievements of these men, as well as the challenges they faced and the strategies they used to overcome them. Men Who Are Making America is a timeless classic that offers valuable lessons on leadership, entrepreneurship, and success.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

How can I attain success? That is what every rational human being wants to know This book tells in an intimate way how fifty of America sforemost business and financial leaders of the present day have climbed the ladder of success. The selection of the fifty is based on the replies received from business men all over the country to the question: Who A re Our Fifty Foremost Business Men, Men Who A re Making A merica? In all but a few instances, based on geographical or exceptional circumstances, the list represents those who were accorded the highest number of votes Having been thus singled out as the most successful American business men now living they may be regarded as well qualified to speak illuminatingly and helpfully on the subject of achievement. Who are the fifty men thus honoured by the business world? In what fields have they made their mark? A re they moderately young or are most of them elderly? How many of them are native Americans and how many were born in other parts of the world? Were their parents in a majority of instances poor, moderately circumstanced, or wealthy? The table on pages vi-vii furnishes a succinct reply to these questions. It will be seen that: 24 were born poor. 17 were born in moderate circumstances. 9were born rich. 40 were born in the United States. 4were born in Scotland. 4were born in Germany, i was born in England. I was born in Canada. 14 began as store clerks. 5as bank clerks. 4as grocery boys.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1428631968
• ISBN 13: 9781428631960
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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