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Marquis James Merchant Adventurer (Hardback) Latin American Silhouettes
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- Publication Name
- Merchant Adventurer
- Title
- Merchant Adventurer
- EAN
- 9780842024440
- ISBN
- 9780842024440
- Release Year
- 1993
- Release Date
- 01/09/1993
- Item Length
- 166mm
- Subtitle
- The Story of W. R. Grace
- ISBN-10
- 0842024441
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Series
- Latin American Silhouettes
- UPC
- 9780842024440
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Merchant Adventurer: the Story of W. R. Grace
- Item Height
- 233mm
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Item Width
- 166mm
- Item Weight
- 758g
- Number of Pages
- 424 Pages
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This biography was written by two-time Pulitzer winner Marquis James in 1948, but was never published. W.R. Grace's son commissioned James to write it when the author was at the height of his career. However, as Viking Press was about to print the book, the Grace company decided not to release it. It then lay in the firm's archives until it was uncovered by Lawrence Clayton of the University of Alabama. Merchant Adventurer tells the story of one of America's most successful immigrants. First arriving in America in 1846, Irish-born William R. Grace worked his way up from ordinary seaman to become master of a vast commercial empire, reformer of the Democratic party and New York City's first Catholic mayor. Grace's fortune quickly rose once he began supplying ships in the Peruvian guano trade. By the late 1860s, Grace was a rich man; his firm, headquartered in New York, operated vessels all over the world, helped build railroads in Latin America, and ran guns to Peru for its disastrous war against Chile. Yet Grace's energies did not stop with his business dealings. In the 1880s he served twice as mayor of New York, successfully fighting the corruption of Tammany Hall. As the century waned, he battled to control the rubber market and nearly won a contract to build what is now the Panama Canal.
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-13
9780842024440
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Book Title
Merchant Adventurer: the Story of W. R. Grace
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
424 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
233mm
Item Width
166mm
Item Weight
758g
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Series Title
Latin American Silhouettes
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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