How I built an empire and gave it away /
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| Author / Creator: | Zilber, Joseph J., 1917- author. |
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| Imprint: | [Milwaukee, Wisconsin] : Marquette University Press, [2013] |
| Description: | 232 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10094857 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Witnessing the American dream
- Penny Poker
- The Jesuits help me grow
- Five-dollar closings and clean latrines
- A church on every corner
- The smartest woman in the world
- Fulfilling the American dream
- Liz Taylor, college dorms, and the father of the bride
- No shoes, no work, and the bogus silos
- Drug stores and 10 million dawn dolls
- The art of making a deal
- Gas pains and 250,000 ball bearings
- Sand dollars, circus circus, and a Texas gusher
- Best of times, worst of times, best of times
- Burying evidence, and the moral code that demanded it
- Laverne & Shirley and the Pabst make over
- Restoring the American dream
- The dinner that changed my life
- Can I really change the world?
- Epilogue
- Postscript.
