Norman B. Ream [[electronic resource] ] : forgotten master of markets / / Paul Ryscavage

• Autore: Ryscavage Paul
• Pubblicazione: Madison, N.J., : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.092; B
• Soggetto topico: Capitalists and financiers - United States; Businessmen - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: If Mr. Ream Recollected; 1 The Ambitious Farm Boy, 1844 to 1861; The Early Reams and the Jersey Settlement; Levi and Hily; Educating a Different Farm Boy; The Reams and the Prelude to War; The Lame Duck; Notes; 2 The Bloody Lessons of War, 1861 to 1864; Months of Drill; Up the Peninsula to First Blood and Calumny!; Regrouping, Recovering, and Rising in the Ranks; The Charleston Expedition; First Wounding and Death; Second Wounding and Discharge; Notes; 3 The Budding Entrepreneur Heads West, 1864 to 1871; From First Lieutenant to Store Clerk ; From a Possibility to a Plan?From Store Clerk to Store Owner; From One Disaster to Another; The Decision; Notes; 4 Chicago: The Blossoming of N. B. Ream, 1871 to 1878; The Arrival and Inferno, or the Inferno and Arrival?; The Livestock Commission Merchant; Moving Uptown; Norman Takes a Wife; The Business of the Board; The Rebirth of a City-and the Birth of a Family; Notes; 5 The Fever on 'Change, 1878 to 1886; "P. D."; Mr. Ream and Speculation; P.D. Armour's Pork Corner; A Financial Coup, But . . .; So, Onward-to the Stars!; Living Off the Lord of Lard; The Ultimate Sanctuary; Notes ; 6 Mr. Ream Pivots, 1886 to 1888Big Man on the Board; The Haymarket Episode; The Pivot Begins: Real Estate . . .; And New York Stock Exchange . . .; And Railroads . . .; And More Real Estate; The Incredible Mrs. Caroline Thompson Putnam Ream; Feasting on Cincinnati Wheat and Bowing to the Pit King (Almost); "Mr. Ream, Meet Mr. Doane"; Notes; 7 Reaching for the Top, 1888 to 1895; The Guiding Light of Mr. Doane; Calling It Quits in the Pit and the Exchange?; Prelude to the Fair; Ream and the World's Columbian Exposition-and Aftermath; A Return to the Real World; Dark Clouds; A Taste for Trusts ; Notes8 Burglaries and Deaths, 1895 to 1897; The Porch Climbers of Prairie Avenue; Good-Bye Dear Nat; And Another Reminder; A Titan Dies; Notes; 9 Thinking East, Drifting East, 1897 to 1900; The Urge to Merge; An Early Gesture of Thanks; The Glucose Consolidation; The Baking Consolidation; Moving toward Morgan: The B&O and Federal Steel Deals; Taking Stock and Counting One's Blessings; Thompson Hill; Leaving the Nineteenth Century and Entering the Twentieth; Notes; 10 Making Money, circa 1900; Methods and Motivation; Assessing Value, Evaluating Risk; Notes ; 11 Endings and Beginnings, 1900 to 1904P. D. and J. W.-Gone; Ream and the Steel Trust; Ream and the Steel Directorate; Ream's Changing World; A Changing Country; Notes; 12 Fame, Fortune-and Reality, 1904 to 1907; The Spotlight; The Directorates; Marshall Field, Dead!; But the Tax Man Cometh; Reality at "Home"; The Corn Products Affair; A Juggling Act; Notes; 13 Turbulence, 1907 to 1912; The Panic of 1907-and the Wedding; Unsettling Events; Law Suits and Pujo; Other Breaks in the Turbulence; Notes; 14 Approaching the Clearinghouse, 1912 to 1915; A Time to Judge; The Titan of Titans Falls ; Hounds Always Bark
• Sommario/riassunto: Vilifying the rich has become a popular sport these days, much as in the early part of the last century. Indiscriminate and divisive, it can take down the mightiest of men, men like Norman B. Ream (1844-1915) who contributed greatly to the industrial structure and economic growth of his country. But he was forgotten by his fellow countrymen because of what they perceived to be a personal flaw: He was rich!
• Titolo autorizzato: Norman B. Ream
• ISBN: 1-283-73463-X; 1-61147-586-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786484103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II