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Noble Drilling’s roots trace back to 1921, when Lloyd Noble formed the Noble Drilling Company. Though the company began with only a single rig, Lloyd Noble was a careful planner as well as a man with a vision. Against the odds, the company survived the ups and downs of the economy. [...]
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“John Franch’s compelling biography of this complicated figure offers a rich lode for scholarly analysis.”–Business History, May 2007
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A superb biography: The research is thorough, the prose is clear, the narrative is compelling and the judgments are fair.–Wall [...]
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“Cecil Day learned as a Marine Corps platoon leader that things don’t just happen–you’ve got to make them happen. That attitude, combined with a solid sense of values, made him what he had to be in creating what is now the world’s [...]
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Alan Greenspan became chairman of the Federal Reserve a scant two months before the stock market crash of 1987. His deft handling of that crisis presaged his triumph in the 1990s, when he kept America from succumbing to the Asian financial flu, and received as [...]
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Although Siebert isn’t a household name, she’s made waves in financial and political worlds, from the New York Stock Exchange to the Senate. Siebert’s determination shines throughout this book; her experiences as the first woman to hold a seat on the NYSE and [...]
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In its heyday–the mid-1980s–the Russian Tea Room was a celebrity force field, known more for its clientele than its food. Frequented by the likes of Jackie O., Rudolph Nureyev, and Leonard Bernstein, it had mutated over the years from a homey refuge for expatriate Russians, musicians, and [...]
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In this biography of restaurateur Jerome Brody, Freundlich (president of New York book packager Freundlich Communications) brings to the fore the man originally behind Restaurant Associates, the company that invented theme restaurants and fine American dining with such Manhattan eating places as the [...]
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“…relates the story of a fascinating historical figure and fills a large void in the historiography of the region.” — The South Carolina Historical Magazine, October 2003
“. . . the author makes a compelling case that this robber baron was a native genius whose business skills benefited all.” [...]
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Originally under contract to Viking, this searing biography of media titan Si Newhouse was canceled, claims Felsenthal Power, Privilege and the Post) in her introduction, by Penguin Putnam chief Phyllis Grann because a friend of Grann’s appears on almost every page. To be [...]
