American Industrialists Bibliography Home Page
Date Published: June 4, 2021
Date Modified: May 11, 2025
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"The biographies, examples and cherished rules that influenced the lives of our fathers are great helps for all of us."
​John Wanamaker, The Business Biography of John Wanamaker: Founder and Builder
Industrialist Bibliography
Industrialist and Company
Book Title / Link to Review
J. Ogden Armour, ​Armour & Company
William Henry Baldwin Jr., ​Long Island Railroad
Sir Edward Beatty, Canadian Pacific Railway
Alexander Graham Bell, AT&T
Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Steel Co.
George Eastman, Eastman Kodak Company
Thomas A. Edison, Inventor and Industrialist
A. B. Farquhar, A. B. Farquhar Company, Ltd.
Edward A. Filene, Filene's Sons & Co.
Harvey S. Firestone, Firestone Tire Company
Charles R. Flint, C-T-R Co., Chicklets, Other Trusts
Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company
Elbert H. Gary, U.S. Steel Corp.
William Guggenheim
​Philadelphia Smelting and Refining Company
James J. Hill, Great Northern Railway
Herman Hollerith, The Tabulating Machine Co.
George F. Johnson, Endicott-Johnson Shoe Co.
John H. Patterson, NCR Company
James Cash Penney, J. C. Penney Company
William Cooper Procter, Procter & Gamble Co.
John D. Rockefeller Jr., Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.
John D. Rockefeller Sr., ​Standard Oil Corp.
Julius Rosenwald, ​Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Alfred P. Sloan Jr., General Motors Corp.
Gerard Swope, ​General Electric Co.
George M. Verity, American Rolling Mill Co. (ARMCO)
John Wanamaker, Wanamaker's
Thomas J. Watson Jr., IBM
Thomas J. Watson Sr., IBM and C-T-R Company
Owen D. Young, ​General Electric Co.
 Industrialist Anthologies
 "The Book of Business" edited by Samuel Crowther
A very wide, five-volume collection of writings by early American industrialists such as Elbert H. Gary, Edward A. Filene, Christian Girl, John Wanamaker, Charles M. Schwab, and many, many more.
 "New Ideals in Business" by Ida M. Tarbell
Metropolitan Life, The Kodak Company, Procter and Gamble, and others
 The Master Workers' Library (IV Volume Set)
A Four-Volume Set of Books
     -     "The Empire of Business" by Andrew Carnegie
​     -     "Highways of Progress" by James J. Hill
     -     "The Difficult Art of Getting" by John D. Rockefeller Sr.
     -     "The New Freedom" by Woodrow Wilson
 "The Age of Big Business" by Burton J. Hendrick
Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller Sr., Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Cyrus McCormick, Henry Ford and others.
"Famous Leaders of Industry: Sixth Series" by Clark and Moynahan's
Ezra Taft Benson, Clarence Birdseye, Henry Ford II, Alfred Carl Fuller, Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Howard Dearing Johnson, Stanley Marcus, Robert Rutherford McCormick, DeWitt Wallace, Thomas J. Watson Sr., Charles Edward Wilson, Charles Erwin Wilson, General Robert Elkington Wood
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