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HarperCollins
Language
English
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A portrait of a great American dynasty and its legacy in business, technology, the arts, and philanthropy
Meyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, founded a great American business dynasty. At their peak in the early twentieth century, the Guggenheims were reckoned among America's wealthiest, and the richest Jewish family in the world after the Rothschilds. They belonged to Our Crowd, that tight social circle of New York Jewish plutocrats, but
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English
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Part angel investor, part entrepreneur, part technologist, Harry Guggenheim launched businesses whose impact on 20th century America went far beyond the Guggenheims' mines or museum. Smillie's biography reveals the fascinating life of this American icon.
It took three generations of Guggenheims to build their wealth-- yet it was the singular force of Harry Guggenheim who would guide the family's next generation of businesses into modernity. He sponsored...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
The story of the Guggenheims in America, Milton Lomask notes, is essentially a study in daring. This quality of boldness, together with other attributes, enabled Meyer Guggenheim and his sons to amass a fortune (one estimate: a quarter of a billion dollars) in the less than a half century since the father, a pack on his back, started his business career as an immigrant peddler. The quality of daring is also evident in the way Meyer Guggenheim's sons...
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Publisher
ISI Books
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
"In Growing Up Guggenheim, Peter Lawson-Johnston - a Guggenheim himself and the board president who oversaw the transformation of the renowned museum from a local New York institution to a global art venture - shares a personal memoir that includes intimate portraits of the five people principally responsible for the entire Guggenheim art legacy." "In addition to first-hand biographical accounts of his grandfather Solomon Guggenheim (the museum's...