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Julius Rosenwald - The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South (Paperback)
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Julius Rosenwald - The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South (Paperback)
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In this richly revealing biography of a major, but little-known,
American businessman and philanthropist, Peter M. Ascoli brings to
life a portrait of Julius Rosenwald, the man and his work. The son
of first-generation German Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald,
known to his friends as "JR," apprenticed for his uncles, who were
major clothing manufacturers in New York City. It would be as a
men's clothing salesperson that JR would make his fateful encounter
with Sears, Roebuck and Company, which he eventually fashioned into
the greatest mail order firm in the world. He also founded
Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. And in the American South
Rosenwald helped support the building of the more than 5,300
schools that bore his name. Yet the charitable fund he created
during World War I went out of existence in 1948 at his expressed
wish. Ascoli provides a fascinating account of Rosenwald's meteoric
rise in American business, but he also portrays a man devoted to
family and with a desire to help his community that led to a
lifelong devotion to philanthropy. He tells about Rosenwald's
important philanthropic activities, especially those connected with
the Rosenwald schools and Booker T. Washington, and later through
the Rosenwald Fund. Ascoli's account of Rosenwald is an inspiring
story of hard work and success, and of giving back to the nation in
which he prospered.
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