First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His -- And the Nation's -- Prosperity

by Edward G. Lengel

Book Overview

The United States was conceived in business, founded on business, and operated as a business -- all because of the entrepreneurial mind of the greatest American businessman of any generation: George Washington.

Using Washington's extensive but often overlooked financial papers, Edward G. Lengel chronicles the fascinating and inspiring story of how this self-educated man built the Mount Vernon estate into a vast multilayered enterprise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306823470
• ISBN13: 9780306823473
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"