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Language: eng Language: eng Publisher: Wayne State University Press Subject: Astor, John Jacob , 1763-1848 Subject: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business Subject: Businessmen--United States--Biography Subject: Businessmen--United States--Biography Date: 1991 Collection: Wayne Open Book Collection-
John Jacob Astor: business and finance in the early republic
John Jacob Astor was the best-known and most important American businessman for more than a half-century. His career encompassed the country's formative economic years from the precarious days following the American Revolution to the emergence of an urban-centered manufacturing economy in the late 1840s. Change was the dominant motif of the period, and Astor either exemplified the varied economic, social, and political changes in his business career or he directly affected the course of event…