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American Dynasties
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American Dynasties

A History of Founding and Influential American Families

Lyons Press, 2021 更多详情


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Well Structured
  • Background
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

Historian Rachel Dickinson offers dense biographies of family wealth and power in the United States. Prominent American dynasties shared their wealth with their family members as well as charities, and used their talent and drive to shape industries, government and the arts. Dickinson offers compelling history and business lessons – from the Vanderbilts to the Kennedys – in this collection of fascinating life stories.

Take-Aways

  • Some members of American dynasties built, and built upon, their family’s fortunes. Others used them up.
  • Two US presidents arose from the Adams family. 
  • Spendthrift descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt depleted the family fortune. 

About the Author

Rachel Dickinson also wrote The Notorious Reno Gang: The Wild Story of the West’s First Brotherhood of Thieves, Assassins and Train Robbers and Falconer on the Edge: A Man, His Birds, and the Vanishing Landscape of the American West


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