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Men of wealth, the story of twelve significant fortunes from the renaissance to the present day / by John T. Flynn.
Van Pelt Library Peck Roo CT105 .F55
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flynn, John T., 1882-1964.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 531 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon and Schuster, 1941.
- Contents:
- Fugger the rich.
- John Law.
- The Rothschilds.
- Interlogue one: Cosimo de' Medici, Sir Thomas Gresham, Jacques Coeur. The art and industry of make-up. Writers as money-makers.
- Robert Owen.
- Cornelius Vanderbilt.
- Hetty Green.
- Interlogue two: Misers, Poverty.
- Mitsui.
- Cecil Rhodes.
- Brasil Zaharoff.
- Interlogue three: Hugo Stines. Land fortunes. Dynastic fortunes.
- Mark Hanna.
- John D. Rockefeller.
- J. Pierpont Morgan.
- OCLC:
- 6203244
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