Thomas Mellon And His Times
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Thomas Mellon And His Times
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Author : Thomas Mellon
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 1995-09-01
Thomas Mellon And His Times written by Thomas Mellon and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Publicly available for the first time, Pittsburgh entrepreneur, judge, and banker Thomas Mellon's autobiography includes maps and rarely seen photographs. The preface by his grandson Paul Mellon and the foreword by David McCullough, along with the introduction, notes, and afterword by University of Pittsburgh professor Mary Briscoe, provide a historical and social context.
Selections From Thomas Mellon And His Times First Printed In Pittsburgh Pennsylvania In 1885 By Judge Thomas Mellon For His Family And Descendents Exclusively
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Author : Thomas Mellon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Selections From Thomas Mellon And His Times First Printed In Pittsburgh Pennsylvania In 1885 By Judge Thomas Mellon For His Family And Descendents Exclusively written by Thomas Mellon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Capitalists and financiers categories.
The White Sharks Of Wall Street
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Author : Diana B. Henriques
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2001-04-02
The White Sharks Of Wall Street written by Diana B. Henriques and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It almost seems that Thomas Mellon Evans was a man so far ahead of his contemporaries that he had moved into the shadows before the full force of his business style had dawned on the rest of corporate America. At every step in his career, he was barging in where few would follow -- at first. But follow they did, at last." -- from the Prologue The first in-depth portrait of the life and times of the trailblazing financier Thomas Mellon Evans -- the man who pursued wealth and power in the 1950s with a brash ruthlessness that forever changed the face of corporate America. Long before Michael Milken was using junk bonds to finance corporate takeovers, Thomas Mellon Evans used debt, cash, and the tax code to obtain control of more than eighty American companies. Long before investors began to lobby for "shareholder's rights," Evans was demanding that public companies be run only for their shareholders -- not for their employees, their executives, or their surrounding communities. To some, Evans's merciless style presaged much that is wrong with corporate life today. To others, he intuitively knew what was needed to keep America competitive in the wake of a global war. In The White Sharks of Wall Street, New York Times investigative reporter Diana Henriques provides the first biography of this pivotal figure in American business history. She also portrays the other pioneering corporate raiders of the postwar period, such as Robert Young and Louis Wolfson, and shows how these men learned from one another and advanced one another's takeover tactics. She relates in dramatic detail a number of important early takeover fights -- Wolfson's challenge to Montgomery Ward, Young's move on the New York Central Railroad, the fight for Follansbee Steel -- and shows how they foreshadowed the desperate battle waged by Tom Evans's son, Ned Evans, to keep the British raider Robert Maxwell away from his Macmillan publishing empire during the 1980s. Henriques also reaches beyond the business arena to tally the tragic personal cost of Evans's pursuit of success and to show how the family dynasty shattered when his sons were driven by his own stubbornness and pride to become his rivals. In the end, the battling patriarch faced his youngest son in a poignant battle for control at the Crane Company, the once-famous Chicago plumbing and valve company that Tom Evans had himself seized in a brilliant takeover coup twenty-five years earlier. The White Sharks of Wall Street is a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary man, whose career blazed across the sky and then sank into obscurity -- but not before he had provided the template for how American business would operate for the next four decades.
The Judge
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Author : James Mellon
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-24
The Judge written by James Mellon and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Lawyer, judge, banker, classics professor, and councilman, Thomas Mellon greatly influenced the fortunes of his hometown, Pittsburgh, throughout the nineteenth century. In the process, he became one of the city's most important business leaders, and he laid the foundation for a family that would contribute considerably to the city's growth and welfare for much of the next hundred years, becoming one of the world's most recognizable names in industry, innovation, and philanthropy. Through his in-depth examination of the extensive Mellon family archives, in "The Judge "James Mellon--a direct descendent of Thomas Mellon--has fashioned an incisive portrait of the elder Mellon that presents the man in full. Offering a singular and insightful characterization of the Scotch-Irish value system that governed the patriarch's work and life, James Mellon captures the judge's complexities and contradictions, revealing him as a truly human figure. Among the recent biographies of Pittsburgh's famous businessmen, "The Judge" stands apart from the pack because of the author's unique perspective and his objective and scholarly approach to his subject.
Mellon
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Author : David Cannadine
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2021-06-02
Mellon written by David Cannadine and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each. Andrew Mellon, one of America’s greatest financiers, built a legendary personal fortune from banking to oil to aluminum manufacture, tracking America’s course to global economic supremacy. As treasury secretary under Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and finally Hoover, Mellon made the federal government run like a business–prefiguring the public official as CEO. He would be hailed as the architect of the Roaring Twenties, but, staying too long, would be blamed for the Great Depression, eventually to find himself a broken idol. Collecting art was his only nonprofessional gratification and his great gift to the American people, The National Gallery of Art, remains his most tangible legacy.
Making It In America
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Author : Elliott Robert Barkan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2001-05-01
Making It In America written by Elliott Robert Barkan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-01 with Social Science categories.
This collection of over 400 biographies of eminent ethnic Americans celebrates a wide array of inspiring individuals and their contributions to U.S. history. The stories of these 400 eminent ethnic Americans are a testimony to the enduring power of the American dream. These men and women, from 90 different ethnic groups, certainly faced unequal access to opportunities. Yet they all became renowned artists, writers, political and religious leaders, scientists, and athletes. Kahlil Gibran, Daniel Inouye, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Thurgood Marshall, Madeleine Albright, and many others are living proof that the land of opportunity sometimes lives up to its name. Alongside these success stories, as historian Elliot R. Barkan notes in his introduction to this volume, there have been many failures and many immigrants who did not stay in the United States. Nevertheless, the stories of these trailblazers, visionaries, and champions portray the breadth of possibilities, from organizing a nascent community to winning the Nobel prize. They also provide irrefutable evidence that no single generation and no single cultural heritage can claim credit for what America is.
History Of Pittsburgh And Environs
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Author : George Thornton Fleming
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1922
History Of Pittsburgh And Environs written by George Thornton Fleming and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1922 with Pittsburgh (Pa.) categories.
The Robber Barons
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Author : Matthew Josephson
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2015-10-27
The Robber Barons written by Matthew Josephson and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-27 with Social Science categories.
“The best, the liveliest and most illuminating” account of Rockefeller, Morgan, and the other men who seized American economic power after the Civil War (The New Republic). John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E. H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Henry Clay Frick . . . their names carry a powerful historical ring, still echoing today in the countless institutions that are part of their legacy, from universities to museums to banks. But who were the people behind the legends, and how did they rise to their positions of vast wealth and influence in the latter half of the nineteenth century? The Robber Barons is a classic work on the financiers and industrialists of the Gilded Age, who shaped their own era as well as the future of the United States—“not a mere series of biographies but a genuine history” (The New York Times Book Review).
Wayfaring Strangers
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Author : Fiona Ritchie
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2014-09-29
Wayfaring Strangers written by Fiona Ritchie and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-29 with Music categories.
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. In Wayfaring Strangers, Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change. From ancient ballads at the heart of the tradition to instruments that express this dynamic music, Ritchie and Orr chronicle the details of an epic journey. Enriched by the insights of key contributors to the living tradition on both sides of the Atlantic, this abundantly illustrated volume includes a CD featuring 20 songs by musicians profiled in the book, including Dolly Parton, Dougie MacLean, Cara Dillon, John Doyle, Pete Seeger, Sheila Kay Adams, Jean Ritchie, Doc Watson, David Holt, Anais Mitchell, Al Petteway, and Amy White. In 2017, noted Scottish musician Phil Cunningham followed this musical migration for the acclaimed BBC tv series "Wayfaring Stranger" to which the authors contributed. In the pages of this book, tv viewers will enjoy re-visiting the people and places they loved on screen.
Historical Dictionary Of The Gilded Age
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Author : Leonard C. Schlup
language : en
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Release Date : 2003
Historical Dictionary Of The Gilded Age written by Leonard C. Schlup and has been published by M.E. Sharpe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Electronic reference sources categories.
Covers all the people, events, movements, subjects, court cases, inventions, and more that defined the Gilded Age.