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The Age of Big Business (Paperback)
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The Age of Big Business (Paperback)
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Loot Price R438
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Writing in the early part of the 20th century, author Burton
Hendrick noted that his father and grandfather probably wouldn't
understand his business vocabulary. The terms "trust,"
"subsidiaries," and "syndicates" simply meant nothing to earlier
generations. But they are important to the remarkable development
of the post-Civil War American economy and industry, the topic of
The Age of Big Business. As Hendrick noted, "The industrial story
of the United States in the last fifty years is the story of the
most amazing economic transformation that the world has ever
known." To understand this period, Hendricks looks at the lives of
the captains of industry, but most closely at the career of
Cornelius Vanderbilt, who Hendricks believes best personifies this
period. Hendricks also discusses the steel industry, the spread of
the telephone, public utilities, agricultural machinery, and the
democratization of the automobile. BURTON JESSE HENDRICK
(1870-1949) was a respected American author and historian. He won
the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for biography for Life and Letters of
Walter H. Page, and The Victory at Sea, which he co-wrote with
Admiral William S. Sims, and won the Pulitzer Prize for history in
1921. The Training of an American earned him a third Pulitzer in
1929. Hendrick also wrote Bulwark of the Republic, Statesmen of the
Lost Cause, and Lincoln's War Cabinet.
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