"Before the Gilded Age is the first modern and thorough biography of William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888), one of the nation's earliest and most successful political insiders, financiers, philanthropists, and shapers of the emerging cultural elite during the era before the Gilded Age. He was a...

Introduction, Part One: In Advance of The Presidency, 1. Family Dynamics, Privileged Disadvantages, and Coming of Age, 2. A Lifetime of Deviance, Deception and Dishonesty, 1970-2016, 3. Weaponizing the Law, Litigation, and Legality, Part Two: Squandering the Presidency, 4. Campaigns and Policies...

Wie lässt sich der spätere Erfolg eines jungen Unternehmens zum Zeitpunkt seiner Gründung vorhersagen? Mit dieser schwierigen aber hochrelevanten Fragestellung sehen sich Investoren und Unternehmensgründer gleichermaßen konfrontiert, da sie den Gründungs- bzw. Investitionserfolg...

"Thomas Watson Jr. drove IBM to undertake the biggest gamble in business history with a revolution no other company of the age could dare--the creation in the 1960s of the IBM System/360, the world's first fully integrated and compatible mainframe computer that laid the foundation for the...