Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona-and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation's way of doing business. When Money Grew on ......
Adventures in Business from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
The Wild, Wild East recounts the adventures of late-onset Texan and international businessman Tom Meurer over a span of 55 years, from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism. As a freshly commissioned Air Force lieutenant, Tom experienced a build-up to war. But it was only after billionaire H. Ross Perot wooed him into the seemingly starchy world of ......
Manjits Wharf restaurant is a successful business story, but also a migrant story with its own challenges, opportunities, and setbacks. In Manjits and the Tandoor of Secrets, Michael Cain talks to all members of the Gujral family, revealing a tandoor of secrets.
In the summer of 1925, Enid Justin--daughter of H. J. Justin, founder of legendary Justin Boots--announced to her family that she was going to start her own boot company in her hometown of Nocona, Texas. The announcement shocked her family, who prophesied failure and begged her to reconsider, but thirty-one-year-old Enid's mind was made up. What ......
From Oklahoma's earliest times as Indian Territory, through its admission to the Union as the 46th state in 1907, to the founding of the Thunder basketball team, this Third Edition of The Story of Oklahoma tells the stories of the state's key people, events, and places. W. David Baird and Danney Goble offer fresh perspectives on such widely ......
Three Mines, Four Men, and One Hundred Years, 1887-1997
While copper seems less glamorous than gold, it may be far more important. Copper proved vital to the industrial revolution and indispensable for electrification of America. Kennecott Copper Corporation, at one time the largest producer of copper in the world, thus played a key role in economic and industrial development. This book recounts how ......
From Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars' worth of products. But only one of them was ever a real person-Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC. From a 1930s roadside cafe in Corbin, Kentucky, Harland Sanders launched a fried chicken business that now circles the ......
Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Karen Pastorello's pathbreaking study is the first biography of Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the first scholarship to place this remarkable leader at the center of the founding of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Bridging the gap between progressive-era social feminists and labor feminists of the postwar era, Hillman worked to end ......
