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John Jacob Astor

Author : Axel Madsen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471009350
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book John Jacob Astor written by Axel Madsen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors: "A well-written biography."-New York Times On Stanwyck: The Life and Times of Barbara Stanwyck: "Madsen's admirably researched, insightful portrait of her aloof nature . . . reveals she was always torn between her wish to give of herself and her need to be in control."-Christian Science Monitor On Chanel: A Woman of Her Own: "Fascinating . . . . Takes the reader behind the coromandel veneers of Chanel's life."-New York Times Book Review "Carefully knits together the complex pattern of Chanel's complicated existence. It's not an easy task."-Toronto Globe and Mail On Gloria and Joe: "Axel Madsen finally gives the public a fascinating chronicle of the romance that could have ruined more than two careers."-Dallas Morning News On Cousteau: "Both critical and understanding. And it is exceptionally readable. Readers are well advised to take the plunge."-Chicago Tribune On Malraux: "Will stand as the best of more than a dozen books about Malraux in print."-Kansas City Star

John Jacob Astor

Author : John Denis Haeger
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814343430
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book John Jacob Astor written by John Denis Haeger and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Jacob Astor was the best-known and most important American businessman for more than a half-century. His career encompassed the country's formative economic years from the precarious days following the American Revolution to the emergence of an urban-centered manufacturing economy in the late 1840s. Change was the dominant motif of the period, and Astor either exemplified the varied economic, social, and political changes in his business career or he directly affected the course of events. In this biography of John Jacob Astor, John Denis Haeger uses Astor's life and his career as a merchant, fur trader, and land speculator as vehicles for examining several important themes and issues in American economic and urban development between 1790 and 1860. Haeger addresses, in fascinating detail, the complexity of Astor's business endeavors, his extensive connections with the country's dominant political figures, and the "modern" business strategies and managerial techniques that he used to build his business empire. Astor was clearly not a business revolutionary who radically altered an existing system. He was, however, an entrepreneur who exerted a profound change on an industry. He fascinated his contemporaries precisely because he so mirrored his age and its changing business and economic patterns. He grasped the greater size and complexity of an emerging commercial economy in post-Revolutionary America and adopted strategies and structures that transformed the fur and China trades. His investment in city real estate, stocks, bonds, and even a western city made him part of America's evolution into an urbanindustrial society. For his era, John Astor's career was remarkable for its modernity, vision, and reflection of American economic and political values. More than just a personal biography, John Jacob Astor combines economic theories with a fascinating narrative that demonstrates, like no other book has, Astor's impact on the early republic.

John Jacob Astor and the First Great American Fortune

Author : Alexander Emmerich
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786472138
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book John Jacob Astor and the First Great American Fortune written by Alexander Emmerich and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography analyzes Astor's rise from poor German immigrant in 1784 to the first modern millionaire--he was one before the term "millionaire" entered the English language. Many consider him to be the fourth wealthiest American of all times. After his death in 1848, the public began to discuss the "responsibility" of a millionaire. Some argued that he must have been greedy and cold. Some voices demanded that he should have given all his money back to the United States. More liberal thinkers praised him for his genius and vision. This biography presents a balanced picture. Astor was the founder of the first American settlement on the Pacific (Astoria, Oregon) and of New York's fine hotels the Astor House and the Waldorf-Astoria, as well as a developer of the American West and a fur trader. Many American cities and sites are named after him. He donated the Astor Library to the city of New York (it became the first public library of the city), now part of the New York Public Library.

Astoria

Author : Peter Stark
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006221831X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Astoria written by Peter Stark and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon trail, permanently altering the nation's landscape and its global standing. Six years after Lewis and Clark's began their journey to the Pacific Northwest, two of the Eastern establishment's leading figures, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson, turned their sights to founding a colony akin to Jamestown on the West Coast and transforming the nation into a Pacific trading power. Author and correspondent for Outside magazine Peter Stark recreates this pivotal moment in American history for the first time for modern readers, drawing on original source material to tell the amazing true story of the Astor Expedition. Unfolding over the course of three years, from 1810 to 1813, Astoria is a tale of high adventure and incredible hardship in the wilderness and at sea. Of the more than one hundred-forty members of the two advance parties that reached the West Coast—one crossing the Rockies, the other rounding Cape Horn—nearly half perished by violence. Others went mad. Within one year, the expedition successfully established Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River. Though the colony would be short-lived, it opened provincial American eyes to the potential of the Western coast and its founders helped blaze the Oregon Trail.

A Journey in Other Worlds

Author : John Jacob Astor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734063612
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book A Journey in Other Worlds written by John Jacob Astor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor

John Jacob Astor

Author : Arthur D. Howden Smith
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596057491
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book John Jacob Astor written by Arthur D. Howden Smith and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some weeks later a dray drove up to the Astor store, then at 68 Pine Street, and delivered a number of very heavy little kegs which chinked faintly as they were rolled in through the door. "What on earth are those, Jacob?" Sarah demanded when she happened in during the afternoon. "Der fruits of our East India pass," he answered, his deep-set eyes twinkling merrily. "Money?" He nodded. "Ho-how much?" "Fifty-five t'ousan' dollar." "Jacob!" she gasped. And well she might. It was as rich a coup as he ever achieved. -from "Fur and Tea" New Yorkers can't escape the name Astor: it graces theaters, hotels, street names, and even an entire Queens neighborhood. This delightful biography of the "landlord of New York" explains how John Jacob Astor, who arrived in the city a poor immigrant in 1784, created such a fortune-in real estate, fur, and trade with China-not only for himself but for the city and nation around him that his influence could not be denied. Author Arthur D. Howden Smith was, in the early years of the 20th century, a tremendously popular author of pulp fiction on a par with E.E. "Doc" Smith and Edgar Rice Burroughs. And the same boisterous enthusiasm that made his adventure tales of pirates and Vikings so riproaring readable bursts forth from this classic biography as well. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Howden Smith's Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement. ARTHUR DOUGLAS HOWDEN SMITH (1887-1945) was an enormously prolific and diverse writer, penning numerous short stories, biographies, and business studies, but he is best remembered for his many pulp novels, including Porto Bello Gold (a prequel to Treasure Island), The Dead Go Overside, The Doom Trail, Swain's Saga, and others.

Six Tycoons

Author : Wyn Derbyshire
Publisher : Spiramus Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 190744436X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Six Tycoons written by Wyn Derbyshire and published by Spiramus Press Ltd. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John D Rockefeller. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Andrew Carnegie. John Jacob Astor. Henry Ford. Joseph P Kennedy.Even today, long after their deaths, the names of these six men continue to be associated with wealth and power.When they were alive, they dominated their worlds as few men had done before, and few have done since. These are the life stories of six of the richest men who ever lived in America. Their lives offer us windows into ways of life over two centuries that most of us can only imagine,and an opportunity to glimpse times when laws, attitudes,prejudices and opportunities were very different from today. Their achievements - financial, political and social - continue to affect us, for good or ill, to this day. Their mistakes still offer important lessons about the acquisition, use and abuse of wealth and power. And had they not lived, the history of America - and the world - might have been very different indeed.

John Jacob Astor IV

Author : Yves KERVELLA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book John Jacob Astor IV written by Yves KERVELLA and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal for your personal notes.Good quality paper.100 pages.

The Second Mrs. Astor

Author : Shana Abe
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1496732049
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book The Second Mrs. Astor written by Shana Abe and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing her husband on the RMS Titanic, Madeleine Astor, who is constantly surrounded by scandal, finds her status elevated to that of a virtuous, tragic heroine and must decide whether to accept the role assigned to her or carve out her own extraordinary path.

When the Astors Owned New York

Author : Justin Kaplan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101218819
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book When the Astors Owned New York written by Justin Kaplan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly brings to life a glittering, bygone age. Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor vied for primacy in New York society, producing the grandest hotels ever seen in a marriage of ostentation and efficiency that transformed American social behavior. Kaplan exposes it all in exquisite detail, taking readers from the 1890s to the Roaring Twenties in a combination of biography, history, architectural appreciation, and pure reading pleasure

Astoria

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Astoria written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Masters of Enterprise

Author : H.W. Brands
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476726930
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Masters of Enterprise written by H.W. Brands and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early years of fur trading to today's Silicon Valley empires, America has proved to be an extraordinarily fertile land for the creation of enormous fortunes. Each generation has produced one or two phenomenally successful leaders, often in new industries that caught contemporaries by surprise, and each of these new fortunes reconfirmed the power of fanatically single-minded visionaries. John Jacob Astor and Cornelius Vanderbilt were the first American moguls; John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J. P. Morgan were kingpins of the Gilded Age; David Sarnoff, Walt Disney, Ray Kroc, and Sam Walton were masters of mass culture. Today Oprah Winfrey, Andy Grove, and Bill Gates are giants of the Information Age. America has again and again been the land of dizzying mountains of wealth. Here, in a wittily told and deeply insightful history, is a complete set of portraits of America's greatest generators of wealth. Only such a collective study allows us to appreciate what makes the great entrepreneurs really tick. As H. W. Brands shows, these men and women are driven, they are focused, they deeply identify with the businesses they create, and they possess the charisma necessary to persuade other talented people to join them. They do it partly for the money, but mostly for the thrill of creation. The stories told here -- including how Nike got its start as a business-school project for Phil Knight; how Robert Woodruff almost refused to take control of Coca-Cola to spite his father; how Thomas Watson saved himself from prison by rescuing Dayton, Ohio, from a flood; how Jay Gould nearly cornered the gold market; how H. L. Hunt went from gambling at cards to gambling with oil leases -- make for a narrative that is always lively and revealing and often astonishing. An observer in 1850, studying John Jacob Astor, would not have predicted the rise of Henry Ford and the auto industry. Nor would a student of Ford in 1950 have anticipated the takeoff of direct marketing that made Mary Kay Ash a trusted guide for millions of American women. Full of surprising insights, written with H. W. Brands's trademark flair, the stories in Masters of Enterprise are must reading for all students of American business history.

Life of John Jacob Astor

Author : James Parton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Life of John Jacob Astor written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Jacob Astor, Business Man

Author : Kenneth Wiggins Porter
Publisher : New York, Russell & Russell, 1966 [c1931]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book John Jacob Astor, Business Man written by Kenneth Wiggins Porter and published by New York, Russell & Russell, 1966 [c1931]. This book was released on 1966 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Jacob Astor

Author : Elbert Hubbard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book John Jacob Astor written by Elbert Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Jacob Astor, Business Man

Author : Kenneth Wiggins Porter
Publisher : New York, Russell & Russell, 1966 [c1931]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book John Jacob Astor, Business Man written by Kenneth Wiggins Porter and published by New York, Russell & Russell, 1966 [c1931]. This book was released on 1966 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor

Author : Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor written by Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: