Welcome to our book review site www.go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Age of Big Business
Writing in the early part of the 20th century, author Burton Hendrick noted that his father and grandfather probably wouldn't understand his business vocabulary. The terms "trust," "subsidiaries," and "syndicates" simply meant nothing to earlier generations. But they are important to the remarkable development of the post-Civil War American economy and industry, the topic of The Age of Big Business. As Hendrick noted, "The industrial story of the United States in the last fifty years is the story of the most amazing economic transformation that the world has ever known." To understand this period, Hendricks looks at the lives of the captains of industry, but most closely at the career of Cor...
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
"The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next." -Burton J. Hendrick, The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page In The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (1923), Burton Hendrick, who first met Walter Hines Page (1855-1918) as an employee of World's Work, a magazine that Page published, profiles the journalist-turned-diplomat. As a result of their professional relationship, Hendrick's two-volume account is especially rich in detail about Page's remarkable career, which saw him rise to editor of The Atlantic Monthly, literary adviser to Houghton Mifflin, partner in Doubleday Page & Company, and eventually US ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War I. In the first of the two-volume work, Hendrick discusses Hines's publishing career and influence as a journalist prior to the first World War.
The Victory at Sea
None
McClure's Magazine
None
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I
Hendrick won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for this biographical account.
