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Book The Life and Times of the Late Sir Thomas J  Lipton from the Cradle to the Grave  Etc   With Plates  Including Portraits

Download or read book The Life and Times of the Late Sir Thomas J Lipton from the Cradle to the Grave Etc With Plates Including Portraits written by John J. HICKEY (of the New York Police.) and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Full Cup

Download or read book A Full Cup written by Michael D'Antonio and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth biography of Sir Thomas Lipton, the founder of Lipton Tea-a portrait of a remarkable self-made man and intrepid sailor. Today Lipton means tea. However, in his time Sir Thomas Lipton was known for much more. Raised in desperate poverty, he became rich beyond his wildest dreams. He built a global empire of markets, factories, plantations, and stockyards. And his colorful pursuit of the America's Cup trophy made him a beloved figure on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Full Cup, Michael D'Antonio tells the tale of this larger- than-life figure. Beginning with a journey across the United States just after the Civil War, Thomas J. Lipton developed the ambition and learned the business techniques that helped him create the first chain of grocery stores. Wealthy before the age of thirty, he set his sights on the tea trade, and soon his name became synonymous with his product. Lipton's great business success makes for a compelling story of innovation and achievement. Moreover, though, Lipton's most intriguing creation was a public persona-one of the first formed with the help of a modern mass media-that appealed to millions of ordinary people, as well as the elites in America and Europe. Concocting simple stunts like elephant parades, Lipton mastered the new art of obtaining free publicity. With shameless self-promotion, he became one of the world's most eligible bachelors, a patron of the poor, and ultimately reached legendary heights when he revived the competition for the America's Cup. With one losing attempt after another, the gallant Lipton, who didn't even know how to sail his own yacht, became ever more popular. D'Antonio's biography brings to vivid life this remarkable figure.

Book Lipton s Autobiography

Download or read book Lipton s Autobiography written by Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sir Thomas J  Lipton

Download or read book Sir Thomas J Lipton written by Rosemary Watt and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life and Times of the Late Sir Thomas Lipton  Etc

Download or read book Life and Times of the Late Sir Thomas Lipton Etc written by John J. Hickey and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Times of the Late Sir Thomas J Lipton

Download or read book The Life and Times of the Late Sir Thomas J Lipton written by John J. Hickey and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book Sir Thomas J  Lipton

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  • Release : 1981*
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  • Pages : 1 pages

Download or read book Sir Thomas J Lipton written by and published by . This book was released on 1981* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sir Thomas J  Lipton

Download or read book Sir Thomas J Lipton written by Simon Olding and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Times of the Late Sir Thomas J  Lipton from the Cradle to the Grave

Download or read book The Life and Times of the Late Sir Thomas J Lipton from the Cradle to the Grave written by John J. Hickey and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Log book of the Schooner Sir Thomas J  Lipton

Download or read book Log book of the Schooner Sir Thomas J Lipton written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Times of the Late Thomas J  Lipton

Download or read book The Life and Times of the Late Thomas J Lipton written by John J. Hickey and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.

Book  Sir Thomas  Lipton s Autobiography  With 24 Illustr

Download or read book Sir Thomas Lipton s Autobiography With 24 Illustr written by Thomas Sir Lipton and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Man who Invented Himself

Download or read book The Man who Invented Himself written by James Alexander Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Lipton was born in the Gorbals, and by the age of 15 had emigrated to America. He returned to Scotland with his head full of retail ideas. This book explores his life, sportsmanship, philanthropy, and success as a businessman as he opened shop after shop in Scotland and England.

Book Sir Thomas Lipton  1850 1931

Download or read book Sir Thomas Lipton 1850 1931 written by Simon Olding and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas J  Lipton s America s Cup Campaigns

Download or read book Thomas J Lipton s America s Cup Campaigns written by Richard V. Simpson and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sir Thomas Lipton

Download or read book Sir Thomas Lipton written by James Mackay and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Lipton burst onto the national scene in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The Princess of Wales had launched a £30,000 fund to provide a Jublilee dinner for the poor, but, with only weeks to go, no more than £5,000 had been subscribed. Lipton saved the day by writing a cheque for £25,000. The annonymous gift created massive press speculation and even greater publicity when the identity of the donor leaked out two days later. Lipton's generosity earned him a knighthood and propelled him into society at the highest level, a personal friend of the future King and Queen. Many of the myths that surrounded Lipton in the latter part of his life were created at this time and would be fixed for ever in his autobiography, published shortly after his death in 1931. Until now, what we know of Sir Thomas Lipton, grocery millionaire and yachtsman, is what he chose to tell the world about himself. Now literally detective James Mackay has uncovered the true story of one of the turn of the century's most extrordinary, larger-than-life characters, a story which is indefinitely more dramatic than the accepted version. Virtually everything Lipton tells us about himself is now shown to be untrue - even the origins of his family, his name, his date of birth and the place where he was born. The man who was hailed as the world's most eligible bachelor (his name was linked romantically with Rose Fitzgerald, the future mother of John F. Kennedy) had at least two skeletons in the closet - a youthful indescretion which led to a forced marriage, and a homosexual affair which lasted for thirty years. As a self-publicist he was a genius, and this was the key to his remarkable success. Beginning with a small shop in Glasgoe in 1871 he created a nationwide grocery chain second to none. In the process, he revolutionised the grocery retail trade, dealing direct with producers and eventually controlling production himself, with tea estates in Ceylon and meat-packing plants in Chicago. He combined a flair for organisation with superb showmanship, with stunts such as five-ton cheeses stuffed with gold sovereigns. In 1898 his company went public in one of the most successful share issues in stockmarket history. Lipton developed an interest in yachting which he pursued with the same single-mindedness as his business ventures. Between 1898 and 1930 he challenged for the America's Cup with a succession of yachts called Shamrock, but the rules of the race were heavily weighted in favour of the American defenders. The saga of his challenges, his near triumphs and the disappointments that would have destroyed a less heroic figure has become the most stirring in the annals of sport, and provides a fitting conclusion to the life of a maverick and outsider who was also one of the most colourful and flamboyant tycoons of all time.

Book Sir Thomas Lipton

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  • Author : Robert Bartly Smallwood
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  • Release : 1953
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Sir Thomas Lipton written by Robert Bartly Smallwood and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: