Description
A survey of American business history covers important entrepreneurs, economic trends, industries, inventions, government regulations, and the development of advertising.Contemporary Americans know the history of their nation in political terms: the era of the Founding Fathers, the rise of American democracy, the struggle of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the emergence of Modern America. Largely neglected in this chronicle is the role of business, even though economic activities... are scarcely unimportant to the nation's development and stability. ISBN:9780060156244
