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  • The Ohio Presidents
    Quentin R. Skrabec
    Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison, U.S. Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Taft and Warren Harding. Collectively their social policies and beliefs formed a unified philosophy and legacy. Ohio republicanism--an alliance of Christianity, populis...
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  • Aluminum in America
    Quentin R. Skrabec
    The history of aluminum: metallurgy, engineering, global business and politics--and the advance of civilization itself. The earth’s most abundant metal, aluminum remained largely inaccessible until after the Industrial Revolution. A precious commodity in 1850s, it later became a strategic resource: while steel won World War I, aluminum won World War II. A generation later,...
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  • Benevolent Barons
    Quentin R Skrabec / Quentin R. Skrabec
    American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hospitals, parks, libraries, civic programs, community welfare and disaster aid. Worker-centered capitalists saw the workplace as an extension of the community and poured millions into schools, job training and adult education. Often cri...
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    57,24 €

  • Rubber
    Quentin R. Skrabec
    The rubber industry was born in bankruptcy and built through bankruptcies. As this history details, many of the great rubber barons--Charles Goodyear, Harvey Firestone, B.F. Goodrich, F.A. Seiberling--found themselves or their companies in bankruptcy courts. Fortunately, the industry has always proven as elastic as its product. From the early search for an American locatio...
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    42,78 €

  • The Green Vision of Henry Ford and George Washington Carver
    Quentin R. Skrabec
    Henry Ford and George Washington Carver had a unique friendship and a shared vision. This book details their paths to 'green' manufacturing and the start of the chemurgic movement in America. It covers a number of little known projects such as their efforts to use ethanol as a national fuel, the use of soybeans for plastic production, and the use of waterpower for factories....
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    58,53 €

  • The Carnegie Boys
    Quentin R. Skrabec
    In the 1890s, the Carnegie Veterans Association began as a group of boyhood friends and older Andrew Carnegie steel partners united to share business ideas, but it evolved into a powerful secretive network in American business circles. By 1925, these Carnegie lieutenants controlled more than 60 percent of the country’s industrial assets. Haunted by their past with Carnegie S...
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    42,79 €

  • Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker
    Quentin R. Skrabec
    Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and art collector. Both practical and creative, he forever changed the glass industry with the automatic bottle-making machine and automatic sheet glass machine. This work examines the long career of Libbey, particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass, his contributions to the middle-class ...
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    58,61 €

  • Henry Clay Frick
    Quentin R Skrabec / Quentin R. Skrabec
    Henry Clay Frick, reviled in his own time, infamous in ours, was blamed for the Johnstown Flood (which killed 2,200 people) as well as the violent Homestead Strike of 1892, and survived an assassination attempt, yet at the same time was an ardent philanthropist, giving more than $100 million during his lifetime and in his will, while insisting on anonymity. This biography ...
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    66,07 €

  • H.J. Heinz
    Quentin R. Skrabec
    Though Heinz Ketchup is one of the most recognized corporate symbols in the world, few people know anything at all about H. J. Heinz. Industrial giants Rockefeller, Carnegie, Westinghouse, and Mellon became household names, and Heinz slipped into obscurity. Yet during a time of great transfers of wealth brought about in part by these famous robber barons, Heinz was well know...
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    35,36 €

  • The Metallurgic Age
    Quentin R. Skrabec
    Throughout history, the use and workmanship of metal has been closely associated with the very notion of civilization. Never was this connection more apparent than during the Metallurgic Age, which coincided with England’s Victorian era and the Gilded Age in America. This era, covering essentially the 19th century, saw unprecedented advances as a passion for technology and l...
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    57,32 €

  • St. Benedict’s Rule for Business Success
    Quentin R. Skrabec Jr. / Quentin RSkrabec Jr.
    St. Benedict’s Rule is one of a handful of documents, such as the Magna Carta and U.S. Constitution that make up the foundation of Western civilization. Benedict’s Rule is an organizational blueprint for success and Benedict’s original organization is the oldest in the world, spanning more than 1,500 years. The beauty of The Rule is its organizational genius, which has wide app...
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    13,24 €