Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail [electronic resource] / Harry A. Lewis

Preface -- Introduction -- Quotations -- Daniel Drew -- Russell Sage -- Cornelius Vanderbilt -- Amos Lawrence -- Horace B. Claflin -- William E. Dodge -- Jay Gould -- John Wannamaker -- Alexander T. Stewart -- Nicholas Longworth -- Robert Bonner -- William G. Fargo -- James C. Flood -- John W. MacKay -- James C. Fair -- Horace Greeley -- Thurlow Weed -- George W. Childs -- James Gordon Bennett -- Phineas T. Barnum -- Mathew Vassar -- John Jacob Astor -- Potter Palmer -- James Harper -- Henry Disston -- Peter Cooper -- George Law -- Darius O. Mills -- Stephen Girard -- Moses Taylor -- William C. Ralston -- George Peabody -- William W. Corcoran -- Nathan Mayer Rothschild -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- John Marshall -- Alexander Hamilton -- James Madison -- James Monroe -- Lewis Cass -- John C. Calhoun -- Robert Y. Hayne -- Daniel Webster -- Andrew Jackson -- Thomas H. Benton -- Henry Clay -- Martin Van Buren -- Stephen Arnold Douglass -- Abbott Lawrence -- Alexander H. Stephens -- Millard Fillmore -- William H. Seward -- Horatio Seymour -- Winfield S. Hancock -- George B. McClellan -- Ulysses Simpson Grant -- Stonewall Jackson -- General Robert E. Lee -- Henry Wilson -- Abraham Lincoln -- Edward Everett -- Edwin M. Stanton -- Andrew Johnson -- James A. Garfield -- Chester A. Arthur -- John A. Logan -- James G. Blaine -- Samuel J. Tilden -- Henry Ward Beecher -- James Watt -- George Stephenson -- Benjamin Franklin -- Eli Whitney -- Robert Fulton -- Elias Howe, Jr. -- Isaac M. Singer -- Richard M. Hoe -- Charles Goodyear -- Prof. S. F. B. Morse -- Cyrus W. Field -- George M. Pullman -- Thomas A. Edison -- Why some succeed while others fail.

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