Sometimes making a lot of money is a snap. And, sometimes, it’s a snare.
The author’s desk connects him with a businessman forebear, the Indian wars, and Old Hickory.
AT&T protected its interests with the fiercest vigilance, and thereby helped bring itself down.
A great and living monument to commerce, engineering, art, and human ingenuity
At the age of 11, Roger Tory Peterson had an experience that produced a major hobby and a new industry.
George Selden never built a car himself, but he did manage to secure a patent on every auto manufactured.
What you owe your car ... Ending the tyranny of the horse is only the beginning of it.
How Peter Cooper managed to make himself deeply rich and deeply beloved at the same time
For a little while, Stephen Girard held the future of the United States in his hands. Destiny had chosen the right man.
A CENTURY AGO, you’d eat steak and lobster when you couldn’t afford chicken. Today, it can cost less than the potatoes you serve with steak. What happened in the years between was an extraordinary marriage of technology and the market.
Sylvester Graham’s preposterous theories about food and health inadvertently created the American diet-fad industry.
One hundred and eight years of managing a problem that might have been solved at the outset with a single law
HOW A NATION BORN OUT OF A TAX REVOLT has, and especially hasn’t, solved the problems of taxing its citizens
The man who showed Warren Buffett and thousands of others how to get rich
For sheer drama, William Durant’s career eclipses even Henry Ford’s.
How two bold sisters set up a business in the very citadel of masculine prerogative: 1870s Wall Street
Something he noticed in its showrooms kept the car from going the way of the Duesenberg and the Marmon.
And how it grew, and grew, and grew…
It meant that the government should run the telephone system. And there’s a reason that the word is forgotten.
When private enterprise served the public good on the high seas and made its promoters a bundle
Why Americans should mourn the death of a British financial institution
Not only are the good ones surpassingly rare, but two of the best are outright fakes.
Timing is everything in music and in business. Jerome Kern demonstrated this twin truth in the most impressive way.
How one of our most enlightened business leaders became the symbol of corporate ruthlessness
It went to Russia along with capitalism, but its greatest players worked over here.
The great, heroic American labor movement, and how it became obsolete
Why can our government use accounting methods that would put any publicly held company out of business?
When the government manipulated and misused the robber barons
Mary Mallon could do one thing very well, and all she wanted was to be left to it.
Sewell Avery was a careful student of business history, but he learned the wrong lesson.
