Everybody ought to be rich : the life and times of John J. Raskob, capitalist / David Farber.
2013
HG172.R37 F37 2013eb
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Title
Everybody ought to be rich : the life and times of John J. Raskob, capitalist / David Farber.
Author
ISBN
9780199908516 (electronic bk.)
0199908516 (electronic bk.)
9781299456709
1299456707
9780199734573
0199734577
0199911622
9780199911622
0199908516 (electronic bk.)
9781299456709
1299456707
9780199734573
0199734577
0199911622
9780199911622
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
HG172.R37 F37 2013eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)839305337
Summary
Today, consumer credit, employee stock options, and citizen investment in the stock market are taken for granted--fundamental facts of American economic life. But few people realize that they were first widely promoted by John Jakob Raskob (1879-1950), the innovative financier and self-made businessman who built the Empire State building, made millions for DuPont and General Motors, and helped shape the contours of modern capitalism. David Farber's Everybody Ought to Be Rich is the first biography of Raskob, a man who shunned the limelight (he was the anti-Trump of his time) but whose impact o.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Small town Catholic boy
Pierre du Pont and John J. Raskob
The DuPont Company
Too big?
A rich life in Wilmington
Billy Durant
Family man
The General Motors deal
Man of influence
Crisis manager
Jazz age hero
Catholic interests
John and Al
The last days of the old order
Higher and lower at the same time
Money to burn
The distant shore.
Pierre du Pont and John J. Raskob
The DuPont Company
Too big?
A rich life in Wilmington
Billy Durant
Family man
The General Motors deal
Man of influence
Crisis manager
Jazz age hero
Catholic interests
John and Al
The last days of the old order
Higher and lower at the same time
Money to burn
The distant shore.
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Print version: Farber, David, 1956- Everybody ought to be rich. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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