Research Bibliography Overview Home Page
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Date Published: June 4, 2021
Date Modified: March 8, 2025 |
This is a selection of the books 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 expanding research on the history of American Capitalism. Some of this reading has led down some paths he never expected.
For example, Julius Rosenwald's comment captured in his biography that Booker T. Washington was a man he admired and that Washington's books were among those that affected him the most, led to the reading of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery [link] and Character Building [link] and eventually the setting up of a Booker T. Washington Bibliography Home Page [link].
For example, Julius Rosenwald's comment captured in his biography that Booker T. Washington was a man he admired and that Washington's books were among those that affected him the most, led to the reading of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery [link] and Character Building [link] and eventually the setting up of a Booker T. Washington Bibliography Home Page [link].
A Bibliography of 20th Century Capitalists, Educators, Explorers, Industrialists, Inventors, Journalists, Muckrakers, Pioneers, Politicians, Preachers, and Publishers.
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This is a "catch-all" heading for some authors who are hard to classify under one of the categories below. For instance, the first addition to this page was John S. Wise, the author of "End of an Era."
It was difficult to really place him in any other category, but his insights into the changes that took place in Virginia before and during the Civil War in this book need to be published, read and reviewed. |
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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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As an example of an "inventor," I have classified Charles Goodyear as: ‘An Inventor, Not An Industrialist.’ This is because, unlike Thomas Edison, he did not truly take his inventions beyond the discovery phase into the production phase.
He was dedicated to invention, research and discovery, not production. |
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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, through his books such as "The Power to See it Through," "The Meaning of Faith," and "The Meaning of Prayer" 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 address some of the shortcomings of early American society.
As of February 12, 2024, Dr. Fosdick's books are the only reviews posted. |