:: the story of twelve significant fortunes from the Renaissance to the present day
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/ John T. Flynn
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New York
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: Simon and Schuster
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, 1941.
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xi, 531 p
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(Essay index reprint series)
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Language: انگلیسی
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Reprint of the 1941 ed
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CONTENTS NOTE
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Fugger the Rich: organizer of capitalism.--John Law: money magician.--The Rothschilds: imperialist bankers.--Interlogue one: Cosimo de' Medici, Sir Thomas Gresham, Jacques Coeur, The art and industry of make-up, Writers as money-makers.--Robert Owen: the reformer.--Cornelius Vanderbilt: the rail king.--Hetty Green: the miser.-- Interlogue two: Misers, Poverty.--Mitsui: the dynast.--Cecil Rhodes: empire builder.--Basil Zaharoff: the warmaker.--Interlogue three: Hugo Stinnes, Land fortunes, Dynastic fortunes.--Mark Hanna: the politico.--John D. Rockefeller: the builder.--J. Pierpont Morgan: the promoter