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These biographical essays, many reprinted from “The Pittsburgh Quarterly”, describe the men who transformed Pittsburgh into one of the leading industrial cities in the world. Included here are such essays as "The Amazing Career of George Westinghouse," "The Judge and the Little Boy: The Triumph and the Tragedy of A.W. Mellon," "Smilin Charlie Schwab: The Joys and Sorrows of Life on a Large Canvas," and more. The book also includes "A Very Short...
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Jennifer A. Delton is professor of history at Skidmore College. She is the author of Rethinking the 1950s: How Anticommunism and the Cold War Made America Liberal; Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940–1990; and Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights and the Transformation of the Democratic Party.
The first complete history of US industry's most influential and controversial lobbyist
Founded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers-NAM-helped...
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Former President of the Criminal Bar Association Richard Levitt called Goldberg "one of the foremost litigators of this or any generation." Former Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office S.D.N.Y. Frederick Hafetz said: "I consider you to have the best killer trial skills I have ever seen in my 47 years of practice, and I have worked with the best, courtroom presence, capturing the jury's attention through devastating...
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112 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
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Discusses the life of the self-made millionaire who made his fortune in the steel industry and is remembered for his generous donations that built libraries, universities, and research facilities.
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"Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie...
10) A view to a kill
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1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Max Zorin has an earthshaking scheme to gain control of the world computer market and it is up to 007 to stop him.
12) Henry Ford
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24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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A brief biography of the man whose Model T automobile made the gasoline powered car affordable to Americans.
13) A view to a kill
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1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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James Bond travels to San Francisco to thwart an industrialist intent on creating a microchip monopoly by flooding Silicon Valley. Features Roger Moore in the role of the MI6 super spy.
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x, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A riveting on-the-edge-of-your-seat story about the famous 1970s Patty Hearst-style kidnapping of Baron Edouard "Wado" Empain, juxtaposed with the story of his famous grandfather, the first Baron, who built the Paris Metro, all with the fascinating alternating backgrounds of both Belle Epoque and 1970s high-fashion Paris. What does it take to create a dynasty? What does it take to keep one alive? And what does it take to keep one man alive, once...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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Reveals how the Scottish immigrant arrived in the United States at the height of the Industrial Revolution, made his fortune by investing in the railroads before using his wealth to fund over 2,500 public libraries around the world.
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Wildwood chronicles volume 3
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580 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm.
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When a young girl's midnight seance awakens a long-slumbering, malevolent spirit, a band of runaway orphans teams up with an underground collective of saboteurs to rescue friends imprisoned in an industrial wasteland.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"Celebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This gloriously illustrated picture book biography tells the inspiring story of Edwin Binney, the inventor of one of the world's most beloved toys. A perfect fit among favorites like The Day the Crayons Quit and Balloons Over Broadway"--
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Shirley Temple volume 15
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1 videodisc (68 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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FDR appoints a Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up the American public. But when greedy industrialists who are profiting from the Depression thwart his every move, the Secretary begins to lose hope. That is, until he learns that some of the performances he has organized, including one by little Shirley Dugan, are lifting the nation out of its misery.
20) Henry Ford
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24 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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A biography of the man responsible for mass producing the automobile in the early part of the twentieth century.
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