Being Rapoport: Capitalist with a Conscience

by Bernard Rapoport

Book Overview

Bernard Rapoport lived the American Dream. Born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in San Antonio, Texas, in 1917, he grew up in poverty and worked his way through the University of Texas during the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292771177
• ISBN13: 9780292771178
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent memoir of a unique American

Bernard Rapoport is one of a kind for many reasons. He's a resoundingly left-leaning, labor-union-supporting insurance company founder and funder of liberal Democratic candidates and causes down in the heart of Texas, where such a fellow is distinctly unusual. For most of his adult life, he's put his money where his mouth is, even when he had to borrow the money. Now that he has considerable of his own money, he and his wife continue on an even grander scale supporting educational projects here and overseas. . Rapoport has always been politically active, and for anyone who's lived in Texas 50 years or so, his recounting of friendships and dealings with national and local political figures will bring back many memories. Underlying all this is his story of personal accomplishment in raising himself from financially poor beginnings through business perspicacity and sheer force of personality.