Author: Roy Bongartz
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Languages : en
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Powder Keg on the Brandywine
Author: Roy Bongartz
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Languages : en
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The American Heritage Society's Americana
Author: American Heritage Society
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Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Report of the Commissioner of Patents
Author: United States. Patent Office
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Blanche of Brandywine
Author: George Lippard
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Category : Brandywine, Battle of, Pa., 1777
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Brandywine, Battle of, Pa., 1777
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Rills from the Fountain
Author: Richard Newton
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Category : Children's sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Category : Children's sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Blanche of Brandywine, Or, September the Eleventh, 1777
Author: George Lippard
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Category : Brandywine, Battle of, Pa., 1777
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Category : Brandywine, Battle of, Pa., 1777
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Transfer of Power
Author: Vince Flynn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0731815319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
On a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officials, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the Executive Mansion, and gained access by means of a violent massacre that has left dozens of innocent bystanders murdered. The president is evacuated to his underground bunker - but not before almost one hundred hostages are taken. While the politicians and the military leaders argue over how to negotiate with the terrorists, one man is sent to break through the barrage of panicked responses and political agendas surrounding the crisis. Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism agent, makes his way into the White House and soon discovers that the president is not as safe as Washington's power elite had thought. And, in a race against time, he makes a chilling discovery that could determine the fate of America - and realizes that the terrorist attack is only the beginning of a master scheme to undermine an entire nation. Look out for the new Vince Flynn novel, The Survivor, published in autumn 2015!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0731815319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
On a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officials, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the Executive Mansion, and gained access by means of a violent massacre that has left dozens of innocent bystanders murdered. The president is evacuated to his underground bunker - but not before almost one hundred hostages are taken. While the politicians and the military leaders argue over how to negotiate with the terrorists, one man is sent to break through the barrage of panicked responses and political agendas surrounding the crisis. Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism agent, makes his way into the White House and soon discovers that the president is not as safe as Washington's power elite had thought. And, in a race against time, he makes a chilling discovery that could determine the fate of America - and realizes that the terrorist attack is only the beginning of a master scheme to undermine an entire nation. Look out for the new Vince Flynn novel, The Survivor, published in autumn 2015!
Everybody Ought to Be Rich
Author: David Farber
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199911622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Today, consumer credit, employee stock options, and citizen investment in the stock market are taken for granted--fundamental facts of American economic life. But few people realize that they were first widely promoted by John Jakob Raskob (1879-1950), the innovative financier and self-made businessman who built the Empire State building, made millions for DuPont and General Motors, and helped shape the contours of modern capitalism. David Farber's Everybody Ought to Be Rich is the first biography of Raskob, a man who shunned the limelight (he was the anti-Trump of his time) but whose impact on free market enterprise can hardly be overstated. A colorful figure, Raskob's life evokes the roaring twenties, the Catholic elite, the boardrooms of America's biggest corporations, and the rags-to-riches tale that is central to the American dream. Farber follows Raskob's remarkable trajectory from a teenage candy seller on the railway between Lockport and Buffalo to the pinnacles of wealth and power. With no formal education but possessed of a boundless energy and an unshakeable faith in individual initiative (his motto was "Go ahead and do something!"), Raskob partnered with great industrialists and financiers, buying up companies, leveraging investments, reorganizing corporations, funneling money into the political system, and creating new pools of credit for rich investors and middle class consumers alike--practices commonplace today but revolutionary at the time. His most famous innovation was mass consumer credit, which he offered to individual car buyers, enabling working and middle-class Americans to purchase GM's more expensive cars. Raskob desperately wanted to bridge class divides and to share the wealth American corporations were fast creating--so that everyone could be rich. Chronicling Raskob's short-comings as well as his successes, Everybody Ought to Be Rich illuminates a crucial but little-known figure in American capitalism whose influence can still be felt today.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199911622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Today, consumer credit, employee stock options, and citizen investment in the stock market are taken for granted--fundamental facts of American economic life. But few people realize that they were first widely promoted by John Jakob Raskob (1879-1950), the innovative financier and self-made businessman who built the Empire State building, made millions for DuPont and General Motors, and helped shape the contours of modern capitalism. David Farber's Everybody Ought to Be Rich is the first biography of Raskob, a man who shunned the limelight (he was the anti-Trump of his time) but whose impact on free market enterprise can hardly be overstated. A colorful figure, Raskob's life evokes the roaring twenties, the Catholic elite, the boardrooms of America's biggest corporations, and the rags-to-riches tale that is central to the American dream. Farber follows Raskob's remarkable trajectory from a teenage candy seller on the railway between Lockport and Buffalo to the pinnacles of wealth and power. With no formal education but possessed of a boundless energy and an unshakeable faith in individual initiative (his motto was "Go ahead and do something!"), Raskob partnered with great industrialists and financiers, buying up companies, leveraging investments, reorganizing corporations, funneling money into the political system, and creating new pools of credit for rich investors and middle class consumers alike--practices commonplace today but revolutionary at the time. His most famous innovation was mass consumer credit, which he offered to individual car buyers, enabling working and middle-class Americans to purchase GM's more expensive cars. Raskob desperately wanted to bridge class divides and to share the wealth American corporations were fast creating--so that everyone could be rich. Chronicling Raskob's short-comings as well as his successes, Everybody Ought to Be Rich illuminates a crucial but little-known figure in American capitalism whose influence can still be felt today.
Senate Documents
Author: United States Senate
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents to the Secretary of Commerce for the Fiscal Year Ended ...
Author: United States. Patent Office
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Category : House document (United States. Congress. House)
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Publisher:
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Category : House document (United States. Congress. House)
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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