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Published June 4, 2021
Updated August 23, 2023 |
A bibliography is a list of books including their history, description, authorship, printing, publication dates, and editions. This is a selection of the sources that have been used in the research and writing of the articles on this website and in the books self-published by Peter E. Greulich. Included are some extensive book reviews of the works that this author found most interesting in his research on IBM, Tom Watson Sr., and the history of American Capitalism.
Some of his reading has taken him down some paths he never expected to go. For example, his reading of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery [link] and Character Building [link]. This was driven by Julius Rosenwald's comment in his biography that Booker T. Washington was a man he admired and that these books were among those that affected him the most.
Isn't research and reading fun, when it is like a solar system full of tangential movements?
Enjoy!
Some of his reading has taken him down some paths he never expected to go. For example, his reading of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery [link] and Character Building [link]. This was driven by Julius Rosenwald's comment in his biography that Booker T. Washington was a man he admired and that these books were among those that affected him the most.
Isn't research and reading fun, when it is like a solar system full of tangential movements?
Enjoy!
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20th Century Research Materials on IBM, Industrialists, Capitalists, Journalists, Muckrakers and Educators
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In American Capitalism there are "capitalists" who believe in a "system of capitalism," and there are capitalists who fund business growth so that jobs, wealth and opportunities are created. These are books of the later of the two listed: those who helped fund our economic system here in the United States of America.
History seems to have forgotten too many of the good ones. |
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IBM has to be one of the most followed, discussed and documented businesses in American corporate history. IBM's own presses seemed to have run 24 hours a day producing a well-regarded external magazine entitled "THINK." Few IBMers and researchers are aware, though, that IBM also had a weekly newspaper called "Business Machines."
Books and publications are continually added and updated. |
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Tom Watson did not consider himself a capitalist. He was an industrialist. These are the books, bibliographies and autobiographies of the men and women who thought of themselves as industrialists: they built businesses to last forever.
Most of them would not have been disappointed in their corporations. |
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Tom Watson invited Miss Tarbell to his office. I found, reading her material, a much different person than what I was taught in school. I was pleasantly surprised. I have since added several other muckrakers and journalists to this bibliography such as Samuel Crowther, Lincoln Steffens and Ray Stannard Baker.
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If anyone had told me that Columbus sailed to the Americas four times in twelve years, and then described the conditions—economic, political, spiritual, and physical, he underwent to achieve this, I would have said: “Really, no one taught me that!”
So much the same for the explorations of Admiral Richard E. Byrd. I knew he took on the expeditions but little did I know he raised the money to finance the more expensive operations to Antarctica. |
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Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and his book "The Power to See it Through" led to the creation of this link for ministers and preachers who were active in the early to mid-twentieth century. It seems that businessmen and ministers combined to take on the evils of early American society.
As of June 28, 2023, Dr. Fosdick's book is the only review posted in this category. |