Captains of Industry

By Parton, James

Book Id: WPLBN0002951679
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Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	Captains of Industry
Author:	Parton, James
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Children, History
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Captains of Industry
Historic Publication Date:	1884
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Parton, B. J. (1884). Captains of Industry. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised them or by the noble use they made of the leisure which success in them usually gives. Such men are the nobility of republics. Most of these chapters were published originally in The Ledger of New York, and a few of them in The Youths' Companion of Boston, the largest two circulations in the country. I have occasionally had reason to think that they were of some service to young readers, and I may add that they represent more labor and research than would be naturally supposed from their brevity. Perhaps in this new form they may reach and influence the minds of future leaders in the great and growing realm of business. I should pity any young man who could read the briefest account of what has been done in manufacturing towns by such men as John Smedley and Robert Owen without forming a secret resolve to do something similar if ever he should win the opportunity. (Summary by Preface)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Children, History, Biography