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The Du Pont Family

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Author : John D. Gates
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1979

The Du Pont Family written by John D. Gates and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

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.

Du Pont Dynasty

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Author : Gerard Colby
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-09-16

Du Pont Dynasty written by Gerard Colby and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

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.

The Du Ponts

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Author : Marc Duke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976

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On December 14, 1739, a second son was born to a Parisian watchmaker, named Samuel Dupont, and his wife. He was called Pierre Samuel, and he was to found one of the most famous dynasties in the world. Pierre Samuel came to the United States on New Year's Day, 1800, penniless, after surviving a harrowing voyage with his two sons. From those rather humble beginnings grew one of history's greatest manufacturing empires. Marc Duke has told the story of the du Pont dynasty through the eyes of the du Ponts themselves, and in doing so has written a brilliant and dramatic social history of both the company and the people who built it. Controversial, cantankerous, and very often holier-than-thou, the du Ponts were larger than life on the American landscape. -- From publisher's description.

Genealogy Of The Du Pont Family 1739 1949

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Author : Pierre Samuel Du Pont
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949

Genealogy Of The Du Pont Family 1739 1949 written by Pierre Samuel Du Pont and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with categories.

The Du Pont Dynasty

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Author : John K. Winkler
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2019-01-13

The Du Pont Dynasty written by John K. Winkler and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-13 with History categories.

Hidden in one of the smallest states of the Union, living in feudal splendor, is a singular family — proud, aloof, prolific —, which today controls a greater slice of American wealth than has ever before fallen into private hands. They are the Du Ponts of Delaware. The Du Ponts, who have long dominated Delaware, have only recently emerged into the larger arena of national affairs. In 1932, several prominent members of the clan, ardent wets, supported Franklin D. Roosevelt. This they consider their biggest blunder and are now vigorously fighting the New Deal through the American Liberty League. The present volume is the first full length portrait of this extraordinary family. “THIS is a lively excursion into the private annals of the mighty Du Pont family which has lived in splendour for five generations on its feudal barony in Delaware—industriously making gunpowder and profits. The inside story is revealed with wit and enthusiasm.”

The Du Pont Dynasty

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Author : John Kennedy Winkler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925

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Du Pont

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Author : William S. Dutton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949

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Victorine Du Pont

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Author : Leonard C. Spitale
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-09

Victorine Du Pont written by Leonard C. Spitale and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, the first child of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont and his wife Sophie, was seven years old when her family emigrated to America, where her father established the humble beginnings of what would become a corporate giant. Through correspondence with friends and relatives from the ages of eight to sixty-eight, Victorine unwittingly chronicled the first sixty years of the du Pont saga in America. As she recovered from personal tragedy, she became first tutor of her siblings and relations. This biography makes the case that Victorine has had the broadest—and most enduring—influence within the entire du Pont family of any family member. The intellectual heir of her venerable grandfather, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, although Victorine grew up in an age where women's opportunities were limited, her pioneering efforts in education, medicine, and religion transformed an entire millworkers’ community.

Dunkirk 1940

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Author : Robert Carse
language : en
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date : 1970

Dunkirk 1940 written by Robert Carse and has been published by Prentice Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Pierre S Du Pont And The Making Of The Modern Corporation

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Author : Alfred Dupont Chandler
language : en
Publisher: Beard Books
Release Date : 2000

Pierre S Du Pont And The Making Of The Modern Corporation written by Alfred Dupont Chandler and has been published by Beard Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.