John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic

by John D. Haeger

Book Overview

John Jacob Astor was the best-known and most important American businessman for more than a half-century. His career encompassed the country's formative economic years from the precarious days following the American Revolution to the emergence of an urban-centered manufacturing economy in the late 1840s. Change was the dominant motif of the period, and Astor either exemplified the varied economic, social, and political changes in his business career...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814343449
• ISBN13: 9780814343449
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Great Lakes Books Series
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"