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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
"Here is the perpetual variety of small town Oklahoma
characters, incidents, changes; the self-confidence of an American
boyhood; in honest, winning revelation.""-Kirkus Reviews"
This biography was written by two-time Pulitzer winner Marquis
James in 1948, but was never published. W.R. Grace's son
commissioned James to write it when the author was at the height of
his career. However, as Viking Press was about to print the book,
the Grace company decided not to release it. It then lay in the
firm's archives until it was uncovered by Lawrence Clayton of the
University of Alabama. "Merchant Adventurer" tells the story of one
of America's most successful immigrants. First arriving in America
in 1846, Irish-born William R. Grace worked his way up from
ordinary seaman to become master of a vast commercial empire,
reformer of the Democratic party and New York City's first Catholic
mayor. Grace's fortune quickly rose once he began supplying ships
in the Peruvian guano trade. By the late 1860s, Grace was a rich
man; his firm, headquartered in New York, operated vessels all over
the world, helped build railroads in Latin America, and ran guns to
Peru for its disastrous war against Chile. Yet Grace's energies did
not stop with his business dealings. In the 1880s he served twice
as mayor of New York, successfully fighting the corruption of
Tammany Hall. As the century waned, he battled to control the
rubber market and nearly won a contract to build what is now the
Panama Canal.
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