Title American entrepreneur : the fascinating stories of the people who defined business in the United States / Larry Schweikart and Lynne Pierson Doti.

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Description	1 online resource
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Entrepreneurs : the essence of enterprise -- European settlement and business enterprise in the New World -- Entrepreneurs in the new nation : 1787-1840 -- The entrepreneurial explosion : 1820-1850 -- The rise of managers : 1850-1880 -- Entrepreneurs in the age of upheaval : 1850-1880 -- The big business backlash : 1870-1920 -- The emergence of a consumer market : 1880-1920 -- Deliverance and despair : 1920-1939 -- Business in war and postwar America : 1940-1960 -- Business's winter of discontent : 1960-1982 -- Business in renaissance : 1982-1989 -- The new economy : the 1990s -- Americans and the global market -- Epilogue : the recession returns.
Summary	America's history has always been shaped by private enterprise. Here are the stories of the people who led those businesses to success.
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Subject	Entrepreneurship -- United States -- History.
	Entrepreneurship.
	United States.
	History.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Genre/Form	Electronic books -- History.
	Electronic books.
	Electronic books -- History.
	History.
Added Author	Doti, Lynne Pierson, author.
Other Form:	Print version: American entrepreneur New York : American Management Association, c2010. 9780814414118 (hardcover) (DLC) 2009009842
ISBN	9780814414125 ebook
	0814414125
	0814414117 hardcover
	9780814414118 hardcover