Henry J. Kaiser : : Builder in the Modern American West / / Mark S. Foster.
In the 1940s Henry J. Kaiser was a household name, as familiar then as Warren Buffett and Donald Trump are now. Like a Horatio Alger hero, Kaiser rose from lower-middle-class origins to become an enormously wealthy entrepreneur, building roads, bridges, dams, and housing. He established giant busine...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Studies Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Roots
- 2. Launching a Career
- 3. Taming the Wilderness—Roads
- 4. Taming the Wilderness—Dams
- 5. Patriot in Pinstripes—Shipbuilding
- 6. Man of Steel
- 7. Creating an Image
- 8. Planning for a Postwar World
- 9. Debacle in Detroit
- 10. Venturing Abroad
- 11. Cargo Planes and Government Investigations
- 12. Light Metals—Heavy Profits
- 13. Kaiser and the Doctors
- 14. Boss
- 15. Global Development and a Pacific Paradise
- 16. The Sunset Years
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliographic Note
- Index