Founders of fortunes

Brief biographies of twenty American businessmen who rose to success through initiative and hard work: v. 1. John Wanamaker, John D. Rockefeller, Joseph Pulitzer, George Peabody, James J. Hill, Henry Ford, George Eastman, John Jacob Astor, Andrew Carnegie, and Irenee Du Pont; v. 2. Thomas A. Edison, Charles M. Hall, Conrad Hilton, Herbert Hoover, Cyrus H. McCormick, Edward J. Noble, J. C. Penney, Spyros Skouras, Lowell Thomas, and Walt Disney.