Contemporary American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary

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This work contains 116 biographies of American business leaders who were chosen specifically to illustrate major American business trends from 1945 to the present. A detailed introductory essay places these business leaders within the context of the most important business trends of the time, providing the reader with an in-depth view of the evolution of American business. The dictionary also includes a number of female and black business leaders. Each biography in this collection is followed by a detailed bibliography. The backmatter includes a number of appendices that allow the reader to pursue biographies of business leaders according to industry, company, location of business operations, and birthplace, along with listings of black and women business leaders.

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. . . Contemporary American Business Leaders will serve a wider audience with its crisply written biographies of leading post-World War II entrepreneurial individuals and families.-The Journal of American History
A companion to the four-volume Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders (1983), which covered business leaders from the colonial period to the present, Contemporary American Business Leaders includes biographies of 116 people whom the authors considered historically most significant' from post-World War II to the present. Its introduction is an excellent review of significant happenings in U.S. business. The rise of automobile manufacturing, which spawned service stations that resulted in customized auto repair shops, is one example used to depict the evolution of U.S. industry. . . . This is an important purchase for any public, academic, or corporate library that has a clientele interested in current U.S. business.-Reference Books Bulletin
The 116 biographies (some are family biographies and cover more than one person) describe the careers of movers and shakers selected to illustrate major trends such as the emphasis on marketing, the growth of malls, and the 'paper entrepreneurship' of the 1980s. . . . The legions of undergraduate business students will find this contemporary focus reference a good companion to Ingham's Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders.-Library Journal
." . . Contemporary American Business Leaders will serve a wider audience with its crisply written biographies of leading post-World War II entrepreneurial individuals and families."-The Journal of American History
"The 116 biographies (some are family biographies and cover more than one person) describe the careers of movers and shakers selected to illustrate major trends such as the emphasis on marketing, the growth of malls, and the 'paper entrepreneurship' of the 1980s. . . . The legions of undergraduate business students will find this contemporary focus reference a good companion to Ingham's Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders."-Library Journal
"A companion to the four-volume Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders (1983), which covered business leaders from the colonial period to the present, Contemporary American Business Leaders includes biographies of 116 people whom the authors considered historically most significant' from post-World War II to the present. Its introduction is an excellent review of significant happenings in U.S. business. The rise of automobile manufacturing, which spawned service stations that resulted in customized auto repair shops, is one example used to depict the evolution of U.S. industry. . . . This is an important purchase for any public, academic, or corporate library that has a clientele interested in current U.S. business."-Reference Books Bulletin

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JOHN N. INGHAM is a Professor of History at the University of Toronto. A prolific author, he has written a score of scholarly articles and book reviews, as well as serving as an editor for two anthologies. He is the author of two books, the Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders (a four-volume set) and Iron Barons: A Social Analysis of the American Elite, 1987-1965 (Greenwood Press 1983 and 1978). LYNNE B. FELDMAN is a freelance researcher and editor. Previously, she worked for the Gage Publishing Company as an editor.