businessmen

Features 50 joint stock companies that have exerted a critical influence on the social and economic history of the past four hundred years.

Contains quotations from the Robber Barons (John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan) and other important business Entrepreneurs like Thomas Edison, William Wrigley, Jr., Henry Ford, and George Eastman showing the insights of the pioneers of the industrial age.

Richard Mayhew, a young businessman living in London, helps an injured girl and finds his life changed when he leaves reality and enters the city's underground world of sewers and abandoned subway stations--a world in which the girl he helped is someone of power and nobility.

Examines the life of Bill Gates, his early interest in computers, the founding of Microsoft, his success as a businessman, his family life and philanthropic activities.

Traces the life of the immigrant Jewish peddler who went on to found Levi Strauss & Co., the world's first and largest manufacturer of denim jeans.

Presents an in-depth look at Amazon, its founder Jeff Bezos, and his grand vision for becoming "the everything store." Draws on interviews with former and current Amazon employees and the Bezos family. Includes photographs.

An autobiography of Henry J. Ford in which he discusses his life and career, and describes the principles by which he conducts both.

A biography of the dynamic entrepreneur of the 19th century who has been singled out as the most unscrupulous of the Robber Barons.