Download or read book Alfred I Du Pont written by Joseph Frazier Wall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliantly written biography, Wall ranges from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemour's spectacular rise in pre-Revolutionary France, to the family's migration to America and the founding of the Du Pont Company, to Alfred's death in 1935, charting the growth of one of America's great industrial dynasties. Illustrated.
Download or read book Du Pont Dynasty written by Gerard Colby and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning journalist Gerard Colby takes readers behind the scenes of one of America’s most powerful and enduring corporations; now with a new introduction by the author Their name is everywhere. America’s wealthiest industrial family by far and a vast financial power, the Du Ponts, from their mansions in northern Delaware’s “Chateau Country,” have long been leaders in the relentless drive to turn the United States into a plutocracy. The Du Pont story in this country began in 1800. Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, official keeper of the gunpowder of corrupt King Louis XVI, fled from revolutionary France to America. Two years later he founded the gunpowder company that called itself “America’s armorer”—and that President Wilson’s secretary of war called a “species of outlaws” for war profiteering. Du Pont Dynasty introduces many colorful characters, including “General” Henry du Pont, who profited from the Civil War to build the Gunpowder Trust, one of the first corporate monopolies; Alfred I. du Pont, betrayed by his cousins and pushed out of the organization, landing in social exile as the powerful “Count of Florida”; the three brothers who expanded Du Pont’s control to General Motors, fought autoworkers’ right to unionize, and then launched a family tradition of waging campaigns to destroy FDR’s New Deal regulatory reforms; Governor Pete du Pont, who ran for president and backed Newt Gingrich’s 1994 Republican Revolution; and Irving S. Shapiro, the architect of Du Pont’s ongoing campaign to undermine effective environmental regulation. From plans to force President Roosevelt from office, to munitions sales to warlords and the rising Nazis, to Freon’s damage to the planet’s life-protecting ozone layer, to the manufacture of deadly gases and the covered-up poisoning of Du Pont workers, to the reputation the company earned for being the worst polluter of America’s air and water, the Du Pont reign has been dappled with scandal for centuries. Culled from years of painstaking research and interviews, this fully documented book unfolds like a novel. Laying bare the bitter feuds, power plays, smokescreens, and careless unaccountability that erupted in murder, Colby pulls back the curtain on a dynasty whose formidable influence continues to this day. Suppressed in myriad ways and the subject of the author’s landmark federal lawsuit, Du Pont Dynasty is an essential history of the United States.
Download or read book Pierre S Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation written by Alfred Dupont Chandler and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nemours written by Dwight Young and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America s greatest houses, the unequaled home of Gilded Age philanthropist Alfred I. duPont, has been newly restored to national acclaim. Nemours Mansion and Gardens is the 222-acre estate and onetime home of Alfred I. duPont-photographer, manufacturer, musician, politician, banker, inventor, suffragist, newspaper owner, businessman, and philanthropist. Designed and built in the Louis XIV style in 1909 by Carrere and Hastings, it is one of the largest and most opulent houses in America, to be compared only with the likes of the Biltmore Estate, the White House, The Breakers, and Hearst Castle. With seventy rooms spread out over 46,000 square feet, it is capacious, yet an intimacy of detail and graciousness of proportion give the visitor a feeling of serenity and a special sense of place that is unique to Nemours. Newly and painstakingly renovated, the house-now a museum that can be toured-glows with the finish of its original splendor, captured at long last in a volume that sumptuously reflects the magnificence of a masterpiece. "
Download or read book Alfred I Dupont written by Joseph Frazier and published by . This book was released on 1992-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Visible Hand written by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.
Download or read book Henry F Du Pont and Winterthur written by Ruth Lord and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Henry du Pont and the museum of Americana he envisioned.
Download or read book Scale and Scope written by Alfred Dupont CHANDLER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scale and Scope is Alfred Chandler's first major work since his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Visible Hand. Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of growth and competitiveness in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, tracing the evolution of large firms into multinational giants and orienting the late twentieth century's most important developments. This edition includes the entire hardcover edition with the exception of the Appendix Tables.
Download or read book Blood Relations written by Leonard Mosley and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and fall of the DuPonts of Deleware.
Download or read book The Du Pont Family written by John D. Gates and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre Samuel du Pont de Numours (1738-1817) married Nichole Charlotte Marie Louise la Dée. They had two sons, 1767-1771. He married 2) Gabrielle Jose'phine de La Fite de Pelleport. The family emigrated from France and landed in America in January 1800. This work traces the history of the family as they monopolize the gun-powder and dynamite industry, move in to U.S. Rubber and General Motors, engage in politics, and build the world/s largest chemical company. The family is now composed of more that 1,500 indivduals.
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Download or read book Strategy and Structure written by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1969-08-15 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealt with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest industries during the past hundred years and then examines in depth the modern decentralized corporate structure as it was developed independently by four companies—du Pont, General Motors, Standard Oil (New Jersey), and Sears, Roebuck. This 1990 reprint includes a new introduction by the author.
Download or read book Alfred I Du Pont written by Joseph Frazier Wall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliantly written biography, Wall ranges from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemour's spectacular rise in pre-Revolutionary France, to the family's migration to America and the founding of the Du Pont Company, to Alfred's death in 1935, charting the growth of one of America's great industrial dynasties. Illustrated.
Download or read book Alfred I Du Pont the Family Rebel Classic Reprint written by Marquis James and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Alfred I. Du Pont, the Family Rebel Often for half a century had shaken the Brandywine countryside. The church, too, was constructed to resist these man-made earth quakes, for it stood well Within the zone of danger. On that ac count the duponts had chosen Christ Church as their own place of worship, in return endowing it solidly and without any Show. This prospering, prolific and insular family liked the things with which it had to do - whether pertaining to this life or the next close at hand, convenient to their solid, roomy homes and to their powder yards on the banks of the tumbling Brandywine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book ALFRED I DU PONT THE FAMILY REBEL written by Marquis James and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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