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Beaverbrook\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span>(1972)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A.J.P Taylor <\/span><\/p>\n Europe:\u00a0 \u00a0The World’s Banker, 1870-1914<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (1974)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Herbert Feis <\/em><\/p>\n Edison:\u00a0 The Man Who Made The Future<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (1977)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Ronald W. Clark <\/em><\/p>\n Insull:\u00a0 The Rise & Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (1962)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Forrest McDonald <\/em><\/p>\n Adventures of a Bystander<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(1994)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Peter F. Drucker <\/em><\/p>\n Delta:\u00a0 The History of an Airline<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (1979)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 W. David Lewis, Wesley P. Newton <\/em><\/p>\n Alcoa:\u00a0 An American Enterprise\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (1952)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Charles C. Carr <\/em><\/p>\n The Pabst Brewing Company:\u00a0 The History of an American Business<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(1948)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Thomas C. Cochrane
<\/span><\/span>Business magnate, World War 2 Production Czar and all around Force of Nature.\u00a0 And Canadian, eh!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
<\/span>Well researched exploration of the national strategies, particularly in Germany and France and of course Great Britain, with respect to international investment, prior to the First World War.<\/em><\/p>\n
Thomas Alva Edison either invented or enabled damn near everything.\u00a0 His genius was backed by the ability to imagine entire ecosystems before it was a word and commit industrial strength research and development to make it happen.<\/em><\/p>\n
Though he died penniless and “disgraced” in the eyes of many, Samuel Insull drove the electrification of Chicago and the U.S. midwest.\u00a0 His “crime” was being over-leveraged going into the Great Depression and, despite sinking his own funds into supporting the securities of his conglomeration, being unable to halt financial distress.<\/em><\/p>\n
Enjoyable personal memoir by management theory legend Peter Drucker of his youth in Austria and first years in the United States.\u00a0 For practical advice you can read his “Effective Executive.”<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/em>Company friendly history of the “seat of the pants, get mail contracts” early years of one of America’s key commercial airlines through the regulation phase and changing bases of competition in a pre-deregulation world.\u00a0 (To his credit, Jimmy Carter’s elimination of the Civil Aeronautics Board is the only instance to date of a federal agency being eliminated.\u00a0 May there be many more, starting with the Department of Education).<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/em>“Home team” story of the company that invented aluminum, set up its own competitor (Reynolds Aluminum) at the request of the U.S. government in World War 2 only to be threatened with prosecution for having too much market share in a product it created!\u00a0 Oh, and long before “Black Lives Matter” was a thing protected their black employees from riots after World War 1 by letting them stay in the factory with their families and handing out rifles.<\/em><\/p>\n
Frederick Pabst started out as a ship captain with a tendency to run his ships aground but excelled at marrying well and taking over his father-in-law’s brewery.\u00a0 Pabst became the #1 beer in America, rolling out new products for consumption and reaching into the south and west with refrigeration.\u00a0 Beer.\u00a0 Wisconsin.\u00a0 America.\u00a0 Yeah!<\/em><\/p>\n