Men of wealth : the story of twelve significant fortunes from the renaissance to the present day

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964 (Author).

Record details

Physical Description: xi, 531 p., [12] leaves of plates : ports. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1941.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Fugger the Rich.--John Law.--The Rothschilds.--Interlogue one: Cosimo de' Medici, Sir Thomas Gresham, Jacques Coeur. The art and industry of make-up. Writers as money-makers.--Robert Owen.--Cornelius Vanderbilt.--Hetty Green.--Interlogue two: Misers, Poverty.--Mitsui.--Cecil Rhodes.--Basil Zaharoff.--Interlogue three: Hugo Stines, Land fortunes. Dynastic fortunes.--Mark Hanna.--John D. Rockefeller.--J. Pierpont Morgan.