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For more than ten years, John Steele Gordon has written the widely read “The Business of America” column in American Heritage magazine. Marked by a combination of erudition, wit, and eloquence, Gordon's stories have celebrated the high points, and occasional low points, in the history of... read more
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- Heinze
- Graham
- Roebuck
- Giannini
- Duer
- Peter Cooper
- Morse
- Roosevelt
- Slater
- Selden
- Rosenwald
- Nelson
- Collins
- Henry Ford
- Cooke
- Dreystadt
- Walter Livingston
- Desi Arnaz
- Liederkranz
- Avery
- Oliver Evans
- Watt
- Frederick Philipse
- Drucker
- Montgomery Ward
- Zieber
- Isaac Singer
- J. P. Morgan
- Adam Smith
- Clancy
- Thomas Jefferson
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- New York City
- United States
- Wall Street
- California
- Washington
- Europe
- New England
- San Francisco
- North Atlantic
- America
- Philadelphia
- Massachusetts
- Manhattan
- Chicago
- Boston
- Baltimore
- Oregon
- Vail
- Butte
- France
- London
- Ohio
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Buffalo
- Spain
- East Coast
- Montana
- Louisiana
- Macomb
- Brooklyn
- Pacific
- West Indies
- C. Vanderbilt
- Mississippi
- Georgia
- Born
- Virginia
- Park Avenue
- Panama
- Alabama
- D.c.
- Sacramento
- Illinois
- Canada
- Britain
- New Orleans
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HISTORY, like most aspects of human existence, has fashions that come and go.
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- John Steele Gordon (Author)
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- Dewey: 330.973
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