Meet Thomas Edison: Ten Thousand Ways
Three months of schooling, 1,093 patents — and the invention that mattered most was the invention factory itself.
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The mentors, their lives and philosophies, and the craft of learning itself.
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Meet J. Pierpont Morgan: Character as Collateral
He stopped two national panics from his private library — on the strength of a handshake.
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Meet John D. Rockefeller: Ledger A
History's richest man started with a ledger recording every cent — and never stopped counting.
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Meet Andrew Carnegie: The Gospel of Wealth
Bobbin boy at twelve, steel king at fifty — then he spent the fortune building 2,500 libraries.
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