Self Made in America by Wells, Wyatt

Self Made in America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781489576750)

Vendor: Wyatt Wells
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$9.95
$9.95
$9.95
Subtotal: $9.95
Self Made in America by Wells, Wyatt

Self Made in America

$9.95
Self Made in America by Wells, Wyatt

Self Made in America

$9.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
How did the son of a con man and a bigamist become America's wealthiest businessman and greatest philanthropist? How did the son of an alcoholic shoe salesman become a movie star and the President of the United States? How did a penniless orphan become a war hero and the dominant political leader of his age? The self-made man is a classic American type: the poor boy who makes good. Yet few books have studied exactly how such men advance. "Self Made in America" examines the careers of sixteen of the most famous examples of the type: Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Mellon, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, E.H. Harriman, Henry Ford, Booker T. Washington, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. The result is a fascinating study not only of how ambitious men succeed but of how American society works.

Author: Wyatt Wells
ISBN-10: 1489576754
ISBN-13: 9781489576750
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2013
Pages: 170
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.36d
By Wyatt Wells
By Wyatt Wells
x
Wyatt Wells is a professor of history at Auburn Montgomery and the author of "Economist in an Uncertain World: Arthur F. Burns and the Federal Reserve, 1970-1978" (1994), "Antitrust and the Formation of the Postwar World" (2002), and "American Capitalism, 1945-2000" (2003). He and his wife Barbara have three sons and live in Montgomery, Alabama.

Recently Viewed Products