John Jacob Astor: Business Man.
PORTER, Kenneth Wiggins.
John Jacob Astor: Business Man.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931.
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First edition. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Both volumes are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Rare in the original dust jackets.
John Jacob Astor, Business Man is a comprehensive biography of one of the United States first truly successful businessmen. Astor was a runner in the 1820s business world establishing him-self in ventures ranging from fur trade to the NY stock exchange. The book conjoins with a series of Harvard Studies in Business History and is based on extensive research done by Porter and his Harvard Associates. John Jacob Astor is now considered a classic in business history.
