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BL
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967661
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b722031
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| Main Entry
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Schweikart, Larry
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| Title & Author
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American entrepreneur : : the fascinating stories of the people who defined business in the United States /\ Larry Schweikart and Lynne Pierson Doti.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: American Management Association,, c2010.
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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0814414125
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: 9780814414125
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0814414117
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9780814414118
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Entrepreneurs : the essence of enterprise -- European settlement and business enterprise in the New World -- Entrepreneurs in the new nation : 1787-1840 -- The entrepreneurial explosion : 1820-1850 -- The rise of managers : 1850-1880 -- Entrepreneurs in the age of upheaval : 1850-1880 -- The big business backlash : 1870-1920 -- The emergence of a consumer market : 1880-1920 -- Deliverance and despair : 1920-1939 -- Business in war and postwar America : 1940-1960 -- Business's winter of discontent : 1960-1982 -- Business in renaissance : 1982-1989 -- The new economy : the 1990s -- Americans and the global market -- Epilogue : the recession returns.
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| Abstract
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America's history has always been shaped by private enterprise. Here are the stories of the people who led those businesses to success.
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| Subject
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Entrepreneurship-- United States-- History.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Industries-- General.
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Entrepreneurship.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.0973
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HB615
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Doti, Lynne Pierson
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