American Business Stories

Author: John Steele Gordon
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: Through these sharp and witty stories, Gordon serves up a feast of American business history. The author is so engaging, he has a keen interest and talent for uncovering anecdotes, and delights in the extraordinary yet eccentric entrepreneurs, the almost forgotten but once sweeping across the nation's fever for making money. All you have to do is sit back in your rocking chair and enjoy the wisdom and knowledge hidden in the author's humorous words. Gordon's short stories unfold like exciting adventure tales on the grand stage of American business. Sometimes the stage is too vast, and the drama itself is often overlooked. Yet when Gordon's stories are linked together, they form a series of thrilling and captivating historical canvases, showing readers how America grew into the world's most prosperous economic power, where the Western world once shamefully criticized the "Seven Sins" are now commonplace; where savagery and kindness, courage and shame, perseverance and cunning are entangled; where people sometimes have to wear the most delicious "death by cheese" historically to achieve lofty goals, and the humorous explanation about this is one of the most popular articles in "American Heritage" in history.