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The Guggenheims

Author : John H. Davis
Publisher : SP Books
ISBN 13 : 9781561713516
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Guggenheims written by John H. Davis and published by SP Books. This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive portrait of one of America's wealthiest, most influential dynasties traces their dynamic and often tragic lives. 'The Guggenheims': Meyer Guggenheim, the penniless immigrant whose genius for business and penchant for taking risks made the family fortune; Solomon Guggenheim, the pioneer art patron who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build the revolutionary piece of modern architecture, The Guggenheim Museum, opening the doors of contemporary art to America; Peggy Guggenheim, self-styled 'first liberated woman' who built a Venetian palace for her art but lost both her daughter and her lover to suicide; Daniel & Harry Guggenheim, whose financial interest in rocket science supported the Apollo moon landing and the growth of America's modern space program; Roger W Straus Jr, grandson of Daniel Guggenheim, who became America's foremost literary publisher, bringing numerous Nobel Prize Winning authors to the world's bookshelves. Updated with the latest from the heirs to the Guggenheim dynasty and illustrated throughout with rare family photos, John Davis has chronicled the saga of one of America's first families of philanthropy.

The Guggenheims

Author : Irwin Unger
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061744794
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Guggenheims written by Irwin Unger and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of a great American dynasty and its legacy in business, technology, the arts, and philanthropy Meyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, founded a great American business dynasty. At their peak in the early twentieth century, the Guggenheims were reckoned among America's wealthiest, and the richest Jewish family in the world after the Rothschilds. They belonged to Our Crowd, that tight social circle of New York Jewish plutocrats, but unlike the others -- primarily merchants and financiers -- they made their money by extracting and refining copper, silver, lead, tin, and gold. The secret of their success, the patriarch believed, was their unity, and in the early years Meyer's seven sons, under the leadership of Daniel, worked as one to expand their growing mining and smelting empire. Family solidarity eventually decayed (along with their Jewish faith), but even more damaging was the paucity of male heirs as Meyer and the original set of brothers passed from the scene. In the third generation, Harry Guggenheim, Daniel's son, took over leadership and made the family a force in aviation, publishing, and horse-racing. He desperately sought a successor but tragically failed and was forced to watch as the great Guggenheim business enterprise crumbled. Meanwhile, "Guggenheim" came to mean art more than industry. In the mid-twentieth century, led by Meyer's son Solomon and Solomon's niece Peggy, the Guggenheims became the agents of modernism in the visual arts. Peggy, in America during the war years, midwifed the school of abstract expressionism, which brought art leadership to New York City. Solomon's museum has been innovative in spreading the riches of Western art around the world. After the generation of Harry and Peggy, the family has continued to produce many accomplished members, such as publisher Roger Straus II and archaeologist Iris Love. In The Guggenheims, through meticulous research and absorbing prose, Irwin Unger, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize in history, and his wife, Debi Unger, convey a unique and remarkable story -- epic in its scope -- of one family's amazing rise to prominence.

The Guggenheims and the American Dream

Author : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Guggenheims and the American Dream written by Edwin Palmer Hoyt and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Peggy Guggenheim

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300216521
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Peggy Guggenheim written by Francine Prose and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of twentieth-century America’s most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the avant-garde. Her midtown gallery was the acknowledged center of the postwar New York art scene, and her museum on the Grand Canal in Venice remains one of the world’s great collections of modern art. Yet as renowned as she was for the art and artists she so tirelessly championed, Guggenheim was equally famous for her unconventional personal life, and for her ironic, playful desire to shock. Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a singular reading of Guggenheim’s life that will enthrall enthusiasts of twentieth-century art, as well as anyone interested in American and European culture and the interrelationships between them. The lively and insightful narrative follows Guggenheim through virtually every aspect of her extraordinary life, from her unique collecting habits and paradigm-changing discoveries, to her celebrity friendships, failed marriages, and scandalous affairs, and Prose delivers a colorful portrait of a defiantly uncompromising woman who maintained a powerful upper hand in a male-dominated world. Prose also explores the ways in which Guggenheim’s image was filtered through the lens of insidious antisemitism.

The Guggenheim

Author : Francesco Dal Co
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300226055
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Guggenheim written by Francesco Dal Co and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings Considered the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is often called iconic. But it is in fact iconoclastic, standing in stark contrast to the surrounding metropolis and setting a new standard for the postwar art museum. Commissioned to design the building in 1943 by the museum's founding curator, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, Wright established residence in the Plaza Hotel in order to oversee the project. Over the next 17 years, Wright continuously clashed with his clients over the cost and the design, a conflict that extended to the city of New York and its cultural establishment. Against all odds, Wright held fast to his radical design concept of an inverted ziggurat and spiraling ramp, built with a continuous beam--a shape recalling the form of an hourglass. Construction was only completed in 1959, six months after Wright's death. The building's initial critical response ultimately gave way to near-universal admiration, as it came to be seen as an architectural masterpiece. This essential text, offering a behind-the-scenes story of the Guggenheim along with a careful reading of its architecture, is beautifully illustrated with more than 150 images, including plans, drawings, and rare photographs of the building under construction.

Mistress of Modernism

Author : Mary V. Dearborn
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618128068
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Mistress of Modernism written by Mary V. Dearborn and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dearborn's unprecedented access to Guggenheim's family, friends, and papers contributes rich insight to her traumatic childhood in New York, her self-education in the ways of art and artists, her battles with other art-collecting Guggenheims, and her legendary sexual appetites.

Growing Up Guggenheim

Author : Peter Lawson-Johnston
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497651425
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Guggenheim written by Peter Lawson-Johnston and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Growing Up Guggenheim, Peter Lawson-Johnston—a Guggenheim himself, and the board president who oversaw the transformation of the renowned museum from a local New York institution to a global art venture—shares a personal memoir that includes intimate portraits of the five people principally responsible for the entire Guggenheim art legacy. In addition to first-hand biographical accounts of his grandfather Solomon Guggenheim (the museum’s founder), his cousin Harry (Solomon’s successor), and his famously rebellious cousin Peggy (whose magnificent Venice art collection he helped bring under New York Guggenheim management), the author tells the stories of long-time museum director Thomas Messer, who initiated the bold expansion of Frank Lloyd Wright’s original museum building, and current director Thomas Krens, whose controversial tenure has featured such innovations as the Guggenheim’s wildly successful first international outpost in Bilbao, Spain, and exhibits devoted to fashion and motorcycles. Lawson-Johnston also traces his own career, from his first job as sales manager of a remote feldspar mine, to his rapid ascent to the family summit, to his extension of the Guggenheim legacy in ways none of his predecessors could have envisioned. Despite his native and tangible humility, this evocative narrative makes clear Lawson-Johnston’s indispensable role as the loyal steward of one of America’s most famous family enterprises.

Hampton's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1036 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hampton's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hampton Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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"Our Crowd"

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504026284
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book "Our Crowd" written by Stephen Birmingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller that traces the rise of the Guggenheims, the Goldmans, and other families from immigrant poverty to social prominence. They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of “the 400,” a register of New York’s most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds. In response, they created their own elite “100,” a privileged society as opulent and exclusive as the one that had refused them entry. “Our Crowd” is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries; a riveting story of the bankers, brokers, financiers, philanthropists, and business tycoons who started with nothing and turned their family names into American institutions.

Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870–1945

Author : Raymond E. Dumett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351917323
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870–1945 written by Raymond E. Dumett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, aptly described by Mark Twain as the 'Gilded Age' witnessed an unprecedented level of technological change, material excess, untrammled pursuit of profit and imperial expansion. Within this dynamic and often ruthless environment many colorful characters strode across the world stage, among them the great mining tycoons, who with the thousands of prospectors, diggers, shift bosses, timbermen, 'blastmen' and 'muckers' in mining enterprise constituted one of the major spearheads of global capitalistic expansion and colonial exploitation. This volume, which carries the epic story to the mid-twentieth century provides a truly international perspective on the role of mining entrepreneurs, investors and engineers in shaping the economic and political map of the globe, in testing management techniques and in setting a vogue for extravagant displays of wealth among the world's rich. Each chapter is loosely focussed on a biographical account of a particular mining tycoon that allows for broad and comparative accounts to be made about the individuals, their business interests, the technologies they employed and the national and international political considerations under which they operated. Furthermore, this structure also allows for consideration of the effect that these tycoons had on the countries and territories in which they worked, particularly the often long-lasting impact on indigenous populations, the environment, transport links and economic development. By approaching the subject matter through this stimulating mix of cultural, social, economic, business and colonial history, many intriguing and thought provoking conclusions are reached that will reward any scholars with an interest late nineteenth and early twentieth century history.

Mining in the Americas

Author : Helmut Waszkis
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845699084
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Mining in the Americas written by Helmut Waszkis and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years of work went into the writing of this: the first book to cover the history of mines and mining in North and South America. The text is enlivened by sketches of many miners the author got to know over the decades.

United States Investor

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Progressive Politics in the Democratic Party

Author : Richard A. Hawkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786726351
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Progressive Politics in the Democratic Party written by Richard A. Hawkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of the appeasement of the dictators, Samuel Untermyer stands out as a champion of the human rights of not just German Jewry, but of other persecuted communities in Germany such as trade unionists, Roman Catholics and Freemasons. This is the first full biography of Untermyer, a prominent Wall Street lawyer who founded the principles on which Jewish democratic politics still stands today. The first to oppose Hitler, he organised the anti-Nazi league in the early 1930s, and proposed a unique global socialist/capitalist worldview which still informs American politics today.

Transnational Corporations

Author : Geoffrey Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415085359
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Corporations written by Geoffrey Jones and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1993 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Business of Tomorrow

Author : Dirk Smillie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643134213
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Business of Tomorrow written by Dirk Smillie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran Forbes journalist brings to life the brilliant and complex Harry Guggenheim in the first-ever biography on this groundbreaking American figure. At the turn of the last century, the Guggenheim family ran the most powerful mining conglomerate on earth. Decades later came the Guggenheim museum, which became the hub of the world’s most powerful art brand. In between, the Guggenheim name was uttered in every field from aviation to politics, from journalism to rocketry. But who was behind this epic sphere of influence? It took three generations of Guggenheims to build the wealth in its first era. Yet it was the singular force of Harry Guggenheim who would guide the family’s next generation of businesses into modernity. Part angel investor, part entrepreneur, part technologist, Harry launched businesses whose impact on 20th century America went far beyond the Guggenheims’ mines or museum. His visionary investments continue to profoundly influence our world and hold valuable business lessons for billionaire dynasty builders like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. A flawed but brilliant man, Harry Guggenheim was the confidante to five American presidents and a key financial force behind commercial aviation and space exploration, two innovations that catapulted the nation into the future. With unprecedented archival access, Dirk Smillie astutely examines Harry’s business acumen, intellectual curiosities, and the world he lived in. Whether it was his paradoxical friendship with Charles Lindbergh or his dynamic and ambitions family members, Smillie puts Harry’s life and work in rich context. Epic and intimate, The Business of Tomorrow reveals the fascinating life of an American icon.

Financial World

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Financial World written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: