Word: groner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AMERICAN HERITAGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN BUSINESS & INDUSTRY by Alex Groner and editors of American Heritage and Business Week. 384 pages. American Heritage. $17.95. Capitalism, usually dated from the publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776), conveniently has the same birth year as the American Republic, and the two have grown up too close together to have entirely separate histories. This volume skillfully examines the story of American expansion in all its derring-do, spectacular accomplishment and folly, from the chartered firms that settled the first colonies to Henry Ford's revolution on wheels. A very unblinking...