Biography & Autobiography - Business

Lowell Lohman is a savvy entrepreneur who created or helped build numerous family businesses totaling more than $250 million in value. Strong family relationships dating back to childhood and leadership skills he honed as a youngster in sports proved invaluable in business. He and...

From the tiny seedbed of Falkland, North Carolina grew highly respected leaders in business, military, education, and civil rights. Unlock the secret by walking the fields of wisdom with humble sharecropper Roy Gorham and reap your own harvest. Roy "Joy" Gorham--fondly called Daddy--masterfully modeled...

Steve Neal takes you inside the world of noxious mismanagement, exposing the consequences of toxic supervisory behavior. Straight talk from a tough cop who offers respectful and artistic leadership tactics makes Toxic Boss Blues appealing to anyone who has ever tangled with a difficult...

Comedy, romance, and spiritual growth happen when a sexy cook opens a coffee shop in the vortex of Sedona.Author: Resa MilanISBN-10: 0983865507ISBN-13: 9780983865506Publisher: Vortext, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2012Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.72d

Ed Jared's memoir is a big story. For one thing, it's the memoir of a member of the generation Tom Brokaw called "the greatest generation any society has produced." Ed Jared served America as a pilot in World War II; he was part of...

"I have always believed that every person's story, told truthfully, is both compelling and universal. Consultant's Journey affirms this. It combines the intimacy of a personal journey and the emergence of organization development as a profession. What is engaging about Roger Harrison's story is...

In this memoir Mario Belotti recounts his journey starting as the son of a poor sharecropper, growing up in a large family, in a farmhouse without water or electricity, in an Italian town that could offer only a third-grade education. Thanks to a twist...

Despite the growing number of men and women denying the Jewish Holocaust ever happened, or perhaps because of this, every generation must revisit the world of Anne Frank on its own terms, with its own vision. Being more or less the fourth generation since...

THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT: NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A TRUE RAG TO RICHES AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY. Hal Jackson was a founder, owner and Group Chairman of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, once the largest privately held Black-owned broadcasting network in the nation, which included: WBLS-FM...

You will find information to help you take your small business public. You will find examples of business plans and proposals that will help you in your endeavor to economically empower yourselves and your communities. You will gain economic empowerment.Author: Dorothy Pitman HughesISBN-10: 0965506479ISBN-13:...

"What next?" A seemingly innocuous question posed to Jane Noble Knight on a BBC1 House Swap programme led her on a quest to discover the unsung Pilgrim Mothers ... as she felt an irresistible 'force' drawing her to discover women pioneers, past and present....

Plot and counterplot lie at the heart of Don Giovanni, Cos fan tutte, and The Marriage of Figaro, the three brilliant libretti that Lorenzo Da Ponte prepared for Mozart. They were also central to Da Ponte's own extraordinary life. His Memoirs record a fantastic...

Originally published in 1892, the marvellous career of the man who, in thirty years, accumulated the colossal fortune of $100,000,000 - by far exceeding in rapidity and volume that of any other man to that time.Author: Murat Halstead, J. Frank Jr. BealeISBN-10: 089499218XISBN-13: 9780894992186Publisher:...

Author: James J. HillISBN-10: 089499025XISBN-13: 9780894990250Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Language: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2001Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.06w x 0.96d

Fountain Goodlet Oxsheer--like Slaughter or Goodnight--was an unusual and appealing name for one of Texas' most dynamic cattle ranchers. Once the baron of an intricate network of ranches that stretched from Oklahoma and the Texas Staked Plains down to northern Mexico, Oxsheer prospered, endured,...

The most extraordinary politician, businessman, medicine man, and promoter imaginable was this Cajun entrepreneur who revolutionized American product advertising.Author: Floyd Martin ClayISBN-10: 0882896466ISBN-13: 9780882896465Publisher: Pelican Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/1987Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.03h x 6.03w x 0.84d

John Fletcher Hanson was a rare combination of industrialist, journalist, and orator who spent most of his life in Macon, Georgia, rising from the ashes of the Civil War to become the leading voice of the New South. Many have assigned that role to...

The Six-Gun Mystique Sequel is a revised and considerably expanded edition of The Six-Gun Mystique, a pioneering study of the Western as a popular genre that has been widely influential since its original publication in 1970. In this expanded version, Cawelti revises his analysis...

This study of the technique of Agatha Christie's detective fiction-sixty-seven novels and over one hundred short stories-is the first extensive analysis of her accomplishment as a writer. Earl F. Bargannier demonstrates that Christie thoroughly understood the conventions of her genre and, with seemingly inexhaustible...

Charles Schwab was known to his employees, business associates, and competitors as a congenial and charismatic person-a 'born salesman.' Yet Schwab was much more than a salesman-he was a captain of industry, a man who streamlined and economized the production of steel and ran...

Michael J. Coles, the cofounder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou Coffee, did not follow a conventional path into business. He does not have an Ivy League pedigree or an MBA from a top-ten business school. He grew...

Born a slave and reared a sharecropper, Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927) was destined to drudgery in the red clay fields of Georgia. Within forty years of Emancipation, however, he had amassed a fortune that far surpassed that of his White slave-master father. Through his barbering,...

Set in what remains some of the wildest country in the United States, Sound Wormy recalls a time when regulations were few and resources were abundant for the southern lumber industry. In 1901 Andrew Gennett put all of his money into a tract of...

Christopher Johnson chronicles the life of Maurice Sugar, from his roots in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, through his resistance with Eugene V Debs to World War I, and on to the struggles of the early 1930s to bring the union message to Detroit. It was...

Part oral history, memoir, and biography, Toast of the Town draws from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey, as Wilson reflected on the changes in Detroit over the last sixty years. As part of the great migration of...

Examines a major Michigan timber baron and political figure who also founded a coal-mining empire in Kentucky. Near the turn of the twentieth century, "Pine King" Justus S. Stearns was Michigan's largest producer of manufactured lumber and the owner of a prosperous coal mining...

Now back in print, this is the only biography devoted to the life and career of Roy D. Chapin--one of the foremost figures in the history of Detroit's independent automotive industry. "John Cuthbert Long's Roy D. Chapin is a thorough and detailed biography of...

In telling the story of Clara Ford, author Ford Bryan also charts the course of the growing automobile industry and the life of the enigmatic man at its helm. "Pick a good model and stay with it," Henry Ford once said. No, he was...

Duncan Hines (1880-1959) may be best known for the cake mixes, baked goods, and bread products that bear his name, but most people forget that he was a real person and not just a fictitious figure invented for the brand. America's pioneer restaurant critic,...

If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge's. Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field's in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a partner in the business which his visionary skills had helped to...

To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E. H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. Like his fellow businessmen, Harriman (1847-1909) had become the symbol for an entire industry: Morgan stood for banking,...

Suzanne Shea has always loved a good book-and she's written five of them, all acclaimed. In the course of her ten-year career, she's done a good bit of touring, including readings and drop-ins at literally hundreds of bookstores. She never visited one that wasn't...

If it weren't for Cy Avery's dreams of better roads through his beloved Tulsa, the United States would never have gotten Route 66. This book is the story of Avery, his times, and the legendary highway he helped build. In this engaging biography of...

"An important book. . . . One of the very best studies of an Indian Trader. . . . Any person with an interest in Hopi and Navajo history will want to read Thomas Varker Keam: Indian Trader." Peter Iverson, coauthor of Diné A...

From his birth in Ardmore, Indian Territory, in 1898, the life of Sylvan Nathan Goldman (1898-1984) spans almost the entirety of Oklahoma's modern history. He stands as a symbol of America's twentieth-century pioneers, the developers of the business frontier of the state and the...

A towering figure in the history of Irish Quakerism, and friend of William Penn and William Edmundson, Anthony Sharp left England in 1669 to settle in Dublin and carve a place for himself in the woolen trade. As a businessman he succeeded brilliantly, employing...

Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901-88) dabbled in semipro baseball and boxing before discovering that his real talent lay not in playing sports but in promoting them. Though he was at the center of boxing,...

Creator and first president of the New York Central Railroad, Erastus Corning was one of the outstanding American businessmen of the midnineteenth century. Merchant and manufacturer, railroad promoter, land speculator, financier, and politician, he built a fortune from nothing to eight million dollars. In...

To chart the inspiring journey of Pierre Jeanniot is to trace the remarkable development of the air transport industry. In his youth, Jeanniot survived the bombing of Rome, the occupation of France, and was a witness to the Resistance in the Jura Mountains. In...

Just who was the man whose name has become synonymous with the classic "rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul" scam in which money from new investors is used to reward earlier ones? In December 1919, he was an unknown thirty-eight-year-old, self-educated Italian immigrant with a borrowed two-hundred dollars in...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This book is an unorthodox biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers' Sunlight Soap empire. So clean places Lever squarely in his social and cultural context and is fully informed by recent historical scholarship, using him...

The Road to WEXcellence: Leadership with Integrity is the remarkable story of a company that demonstrates vision, persistence, grit, and the ability to create longstanding partnerships with small and large companies. The author not only had a front row seat in this remarkable story,...

Embrace Farm Strong, a Heartfelt, 400-Year Story of Family, Faith, and Legacy. Farm Strong depicts the poignant story of the Hatcher family, starting with their immigration to America in 1635 through their present-day life ambitiously running a regionally well-known dairy farm. This deeply personal...

From his tiny, shoe-box apartment, an American from South-Central LA launches Wisdom21--a unique language academy in western Japan. As enrollment soars, success leads to union battles, clashes with the mob, and unpredictable romantic encounters. Doing business in Japan has never been more riveting. And...

To have your own brewery is the dream of almost every home brewer. Bill Mares was one of those, but he had to wait 40 years to meet and join up with Todd Haire, a real brewer, for this dream to become real. This...

From his tiny, shoe-box apartment, an American from South-Central LA launches Wisdom21-a boutique language academy in western Japan. As enrollment soars, success leads to union battles, clashes with the mob, and unpredictable romantic encounters. Doing business in Japan was never more riveting. And the...

TO BE FRANK, the life story of philanthropist and businessman Frank Morsani, explores his inspiring journey of hard work, perseverance and integrity--delving into detail about the winning management style that has defined his entire career. Frank has truly lived the American Dream--and his message...

From ancient times to the present day, Iranian social, political, and economic life has been dramatically influenced by psychoactive agents. This book looks at the stimulants that, as put by a longtime resident of seventeenth-century Iran, Rapha? du Mans, provided Iranians with damagh, gave...

The concept of mass is one of the most fundamental notions in physics, comparable in importance only to those of space and time. But in contrast to the latter, which are the subject of innumerable physical and philosophical studies, the concept of mass has...