Merchant Adventurer

Download or read book Merchant Adventurer written by Marquis James and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marquis James's penchant for the sturdy individualists of our history, which has twice led him to a Pulitzer Prize, finds a sympathetic new subject in W. R. Grace, the Irish immigrant boy who not only opened new fields to American commerce but also became an outstanding mayor of New York and a powerful amateur in national politics. In this warm, nostalgic story, made possible by his access to the files of W. R. Grace & Co., James combines his gift for biography and his close acquaintance with business history to investigate a characteristic phenomenon of American life.