Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab

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$63.25
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
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Pages
304
Dimensions
6.1 X 9.2 X 0.8 inches | 0.9 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780822961994

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About the Author
Kenneth Warren is Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, University of Oxford. He is the author of numerous books, including Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation 1901Ð2001; Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry; and Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America.
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In his marvelous business biography of Charles Schwab, Kenneth Warren demonstrates yet again his talents as a historian of industrial America. Warren's portrait of Schwab is beautifully written, superbly documented, and filled with insights. It is the perfect complement to his earlier and equally superb biography of Henry Frick.-- "David Nasaw, author of Andrew Carnegie"
Homestead 1892, Carnegie Steel 1897, U.S. Steel 1901, the Emergency Fleet Corporation 1918, the American Iron and Steel Institute 1927-in Industrial Genius, Kenneth Warren does justice to Charles Schwab, the ultimate inside man.-- "Thomas J. Misa, author of A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925"
A fascinating portrait of Schwab as the consummate business manager, chief executive, and industry 'salesman.' Warren effectively cuts through the historical mythology surrounding Schwab's larger-than-life persona to reveal a man ruthlessly devoted to efficiency and technological innovation. This study offers valuable insights into industrial practices within the American steel industry. Warren gives Schwab his due, but more importantly, he addresses the broader consequences of Schwab's innovative life.-- "Technology and Culture"
Warren, one of the best historians of the American steel industry, has used these newly available papers to craft the fullest, most balanced account of Schwab's professional life to date, while offering new details of how Bethlehem Steel became the great business enterprise it was for the first seventy-five years of the twentieth century.-- "Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"
Kenneth Warren is revolutionizing scholarship on the American steel industry.-- "The Journal of American History"