Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon

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Beard Books, 2004 - 400 ページ
This is a reprint of a previosly published work. It dewals with Samuel Insull, who was Thomas Edison's private secretary and founded the business of centralized electric supply. He organized the Edison General Electric Company.

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London
1
Insull on the Mohawk
25
Chicago
55
Intimates
74
The Big Shot
102
Or The Short Happy Life of Samuel Insull
133
The War
162
191723
188
The Empire and Its Marshals
214
The Enemies
237
The Fall of the House of Insull
274
The Trial
305
Aftermath
334
Index
341
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著者について (2004)

Forrest McDonald was born in Orange, Texas on January 7, 1927. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and received a doctorate there in 1955. He taught history at Brown University, Wayne State University, and the University of Alabama, where he retired in 2002. He wrote more than a dozen books including Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution, The American Presidency: An Intellectual History, and biographies of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. He died of heart failure on January 19, 2016 at the age of 89.

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書籍名Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon
著者Forrest McDonald
版再版
出版社Beard Books, 2004
ISBN1587982439, 9781587982439
ページ数400 ページ
  
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