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Presents the dramatic story of the individuals and familes who have shaped Chicago's cultural, financial, and social life, including figures with such names as Armour, Swift, Wrigley, and Marshall Field
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This collection of short profiles of wealthy Chicago families purports to be biography and history but in fact is mainly gossip. Darby, a veteran Chicago newspaper columnist, here tells about such leading Windy City families as the Fields, Swifts, and Armours, and brings the story down to the present. Fast-paced but rather shallow, the book reads like series of extended columns. Good biography seeks to place a life or lives in the context of an era; good history explains change over time. But in this book we get just a parade of money-makers with little attention to the firms they operated, the business climate, or the social and political implications of generational transfers of great wealth. A possible choice for popular collections only. James W. Oberly, History Dept., University of WisconsinEau Claire
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0385123698
- ISBN 13 9780385123693
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages276
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Fortune Builders
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The Fortune Builders
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Biographies of Chicago business leaders & millionaires, including Armour, Field, Pritzker, MacArthur, Swift, McCormick. Stated first edition. Hardcover, black cloth spine over blue boards, gilt titling. Light wear to book & jacket. Text clean; x, [2], 276 pages; index. Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # p1165
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The Fortunate Builders
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The Fortune Builders
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Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. x, 276pp. Very good/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Handsome, quite tight first edition of this account of Chicago's wealthiest -- as jacket front panel proclaims, "They made it big and changed the country. Swift, Armour, McCormick, Pritzker, Field, MacArthur, Wrigley, and others." Front flyleaf bears bold author inscription and signature in blue fineline: "For Tom and Cassie / Good Fortune and / Best wishes / Edwin Darby / Christmas, 1986." Darby (1922-81) was a noted Chicago financial report, and Tom Hollatz was a Chicago crime reporter, John Dillinger scholar and author of "Gangster Holidays: The Lore and Legends of the Bad Guys" (1987). Seller Inventory # 45082
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