Men of wealth ;: The story of twelve significant fortunes from the renaissance to the present day [Hardcover]

John Thomas Flynn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1941

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster; First edition. edition (1941)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0006AP950
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,933,746 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars 12 significant fortunes, October 23, 2006

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This review is from: Men of Wealth; The Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day (Essay Index Reprint Series) (Hardcover)

This is a book by John T Flynn who wrote with his biased opinion right out in the open. In here you will find 12 concise biographies of these 12 individuals: Fugger The Rich, John Law, The Rothschilds, Robert Owen, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Hetty Green, Mitsui, Cecil Rhodes, Basil Zaharoff, Mark Hanna, John D Rockefeller and JP Morgan. There are 500 pages of some pretty interesting stories that would have been much better if the author could have kept his opinion out of it. He had a negative slant towards everyone he wrote about because he seemed to despise people who had made a lot of money. That being said is the reason I can only give it 3 stars. After getting past the bias the bio's where pretty well written and gave a general overview of their lives and affairs. There wasn't a great deal of business info that you would get from some other writers but I would say there was enough to keep you interested.