| Captains of industry or Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money: A Book For Young Americans Contributor(s): Parton, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 153016902X ISBN-13: 9781530169023 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.48 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2001 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Self-help | Motivational & Inspirational |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.80 lbs) 244 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this book are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised them or by the noble use they made of the leisure which success in them usually gives. Such men are the nobility of republics. The American people were fortunate in having at an early period an ideal man of this kind in Benjamin Franklin, who, at the age of forty-two, just mid-way in his life, deliberately relinquished the most profitable business of its kind in the colonies for the sole purpose of developing electrical science. In this, as in other respects, his example has had great influence with his countrymen. |