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American made : shapers of the American economy
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- Creator
- Harold C. Livesay
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Second edition
- New York : Pearson-Longman, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780321076199, 0321076192
- OCLC
- ocm62302454
- Subtitle of 1979 ed.: men who shaped the American economy.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-318) and index.
- The artist of his country: Eli Whitney -- The grim reaper: Cyrus Hall McCormick -- The star-spangled Scotchman: Andrew Carnegie -- The most useful American: Thomas A. Edison -- The insolent charioteer: Henry Ford -- The patriarchal pioneer: Pierre S. du Pont -- The organization man: Alfred P. Sloan -- Avatar of the worldwide car: Henry Ford II -- The philosopher scientist: Edwin Land -- And so it goes: burgers, bargains, and bytes -- Of things past and things to come