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  • Amelia Earhart: Never in Man's Shadow

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Amelia Earhart. Earhart's disappearance has mesmerized the American public ever since her fateful around-the-world flight in 1937. However, the public's fascination with Lady Lindy began long before her disappearance as she ventured into what was an almost exclusively male domain: airplanes and flight, flaunting convention with panache. This is her story. ... Read more

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  • George Eastman: The Kodak King

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Co. and inventor of the Kodak and Brownie cameras that revolutionized photography. In roughly 30 years beginning in 1880, Eastman changed the world of photography. Instead of cameras the size of microwave ovens, and the need for a tent, chemicals, glass plates and enormous patience, the camera alone priced at nearly 50, Eastman ... Read more

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  • A Road Well Traveled: Profiles Of America's Great Automobile Pioneers

    by Daniel Alef ...
    The great American automotive pioneers were entrepreneurial inventors and visionaries who changed the American landscape and brought us a new national culture. These pioneers lifted the veil of isolation that enveloped most pre-twentieth century Americans and made it possible for the average person to travel whenever and wherever he or she pleased. Automobiles changed the concept of transportation ... Read more

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  • Henry Goldman: Goldman Sachs and the Beginning of Investment Banking

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Henry Goldman is arguably the founder of investment banking as we know it today. In 1906 he began diverting his fathers company from a bank specializing in commercial paper into a Wall Street firm that helped enterprises expand operations by raising the capital they needed through the sale of their shares to the public. He was ethical conscientious a first-rate investor and an aggressive risk ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • J.P. Morgan: America's Greatest Banker

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were staunch opponents of a national bank. When President Jackson let the charter of the second bank lapse after 20 years it left the nation unprepared and powerless to respond quickly or effectively to major economic declines or emergencies. J. Pierpont Morgan became America's central bank initiating monetary policies that saved the nation from a severe ... Read more

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  • Juan Terry Trippe: Founder of Pan Am and Commercial Aviation

    by Daniel Alef ...
    The growth of commercial air transportation and the number of passengers flying today can be laid at the feet of one of the great aviation pioneers, Juan Trippe, who began a crusade to create an air network that would link America to the world. The Yale graduate was absorbed by flight and airplanes. He established Pan American World Airways with a fleet of flying boats linking the U.S. Latin and ... Read more

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  • Thomas Nast: Political Cartoonist And 'President Maker'

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Thomas Nast has been called the greatest political cartoonist of all time. He was much more than that. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant attributed his presidential victory in the 1868 campaign "to the sword of (Indian-fighting Gen. Phil) Sheridan and the pencil of Nast." Nast could smite the most powerful titans with a single stroke of that pencil. New York's "Boss" Tweed would attest to this. He went to ... Read more

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  • Daniel Webster: Statesman, Supreme Court Star And Orator

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Daniel Webster, a great statesmen, lawyer and public speaker. As an attorney, Daniel Webster represented some America's greatest tycoons and served as legal counsel in several cases that established important constitutional precedents that confirmed the authority of the Federal government. He also served as Secretary of State under several administrations and as U.S. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Jack Knudsen Northrop: Aviation Pioneer And His Flying Wing

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Famed aviation pioneer Donald Douglas once said "Every airplane flying today has some Jack Northrop in it." Northrop was an aviation genius who was more interested in developing new technology than selling airplanes or making a fortune. The Northrop story is the story of American aviation history; he worked with the Loughead brothers (who changed their name to Lockheed) and Donald Douglas ... Read more

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  • Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson: From Skunk Works To The Edge Of Space

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Kelly Johnson designed the Blackbird, a plane that flew non-stop from London to Los Angeles in less than four hours, outracing the sun and landing four hours before it had taken off, a remarkable feat--and this was more than 35 years ago. Johnson was the innovative genius behind Lockheed's "Skunk Works," and played a leading role in the development of more than forty aircraft, including some of ... Read more

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  • Walter Chrysler: Doctor Of Sick Automobile Companies

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of one of America's iconic automobile pioneers, Walter Chrysler, a man Time magazine described as a "doctor of sick automobile companies." The Chrysler Building in New York, topped by its world-famous art deco tower, an enduring symbol of America's industrial evolution, is also a standing tribute to its namesake. Walter Chrysler was a monumental pioneer in the automobile ... Read more

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  • Milton Snavely Hershey: King Of Chocolate

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Success is not the absence of failure and the Milton Snavely Hershey story is concrete proof of this aphorism: he had a string of successive failures and only one success, the formation of Hershey Chocolate. His failures were so striking and so devastating his friends and family lost all confidence in his ability and judgment. They withdrew their financial and other support. Hershey never lost his ... Read more

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