Name: Gilded Age Entrepreneur. The Curious Life of American Financier Albert Benton Pullman (en Inglés)
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Author: Simon Cordery
ISBN: 9781501783180

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Gilded Age Entrepreneur. The Curious Life of American Financier Albert Benton Pullman (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Cornell University Press

Autor

Simon Cordery

Año

2025

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

366

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.6x16.4x3.1 cm

ISBN13

9781501783180

Gilded Age Entrepreneur. The Curious Life of American Financier Albert Benton Pullman (en Inglés)

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\nSimon Cordery's Gilded Age Entrepreneur illuminates the fascinating and chaotic business world of Albert Pullman. The influential but little-known older brother of George Pullman and the craftsman of the family, Albert designed the first luxurious Pullman railroad cars and hosted promotional trips to show them off. In those heady early days, he met national business and political leaders and hired the first Pullman porters. Albert and George made a formidable team, but as the Pullman Company grew, Albert's role shrank. He turned to his own investment portfolio, often with disastrous results. Beginning with the industrial laundry that cleaned sleeping-car linens, Albert appeared before the Supreme Court after a catastrophic insurance investment, ran afoul of federal banking regulations, and failed in an attempt to corner wheat futures. With evermore unsuccessful speculations, Albert was tempted by extralegal land sales and entered the silver-mining game. Finally, his own family in crisis and his relationship with George shattered, Albert Pullman launched into one last round of adventurous investments with mixed results. Gilded Age Entrepreneur demonstrates that Albert Pullman embodied the small-time investors who were legion after the Civil War. From banking and insurance to manufacturing and mining, a host of hopeful dreamers like Albert Pullman fueled the circulation of capital by forging political connections, creating and losing businesses, issuing shares, and longing for profit.