Hidden TreasuresHarry A. Lewis
Hidden Treasures
"Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began life poor." A selection of mini-biographies teaches us how some successful men have overcome odds to make their mark on history. (Summary by Lynne Thompson (quote from Introduction))
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91 capítulos
16 h 38 min
- 1 Preface, Introduction, Quotations7:13
- 2 Daniel Drew5:52
- 3 Russell Sage4:07
- 4 Cornelius Vanderbilt9:36
- 5 Amos Lawrence10:25
- 6 Horace B. Claflin3:31
- 7 William E. Dodge3:59
- 8 Jay Gould14:45
- 9 John Wannamaker4:22
- 10 Alexander T. Stewart8:03
- 11 Nicholas Longworth4:40
- 12 Robert Bonner4:46
- 13 William G. Fargo3:08
- 14 James C. Flood5:20
- 15 John W. MacKay5:05
- 16 James C. Fair11:55
- 17 Horace Greeley16:02
- 18 Thurlow Weed7:02
- 19 George W. Childs10:47
- 20 James Gordon Bennett7:59
- 21 Phineas T. Barnum4:15
- 22 Matthew Vassar3:28
- 23 John Jacob Astor4:40
- 24 Potter Palmer4:04
- 25 James Harper7:55
- 26 Henry Disston3:38
- 27 Peter Cooper8:29
- 28 George Law3:39
- 29 Darius O. Mills4:41
- 30 Stephen Girard8:53
- 31 Moses Taylor3:45
- 32 William C. Ralston6:59
- 33 George Peabody7:01
- 34 William W. Corcoran5:11
- 35 Nathan Mayer Rothschild10:03
- 36 John Adams, Part 136:33
- 37 John Adams, Part 242:02
- 38 Thomas Jefferson14:40
- 39 John Marshall7:50
- 40 Alexander Hamilton8:22
- 41 James Madison32:03
- 42 James Monroe11:49
- 43 Lewis Cass4:05
- 44 John C. Calhoun13:26
- 45 Robert Y. Hayne5:06
- 46 Daniel Webster33:07
- 47 Andrew Jackson20:17
- 48 Thomas H. Benton14:09
- 49 Henry Clay10:30
- 50 Martin Van Buren8:13
- 51 Stephen Arnold Douglass6:42
- 52 Abbott Lawrence3:08
- 53 Alexander H. Stephens20:34
- 54 Millard Fillmore7:07
- 55 William H. Seward11:21
- 56 Horatio Seymour6:57
- 57 Winfield S. Hancock7:46
- 58 George B. McClellan4:53
- 59 Ulysses Simpson Grant7:51
- 60 Stonewall Jackson5:29
- 61 General Robert E. Lee8:46
- 62 Henry Wilson4:55
- 63 Abraham Lincoln29:54
- 64 Edward Everett10:06
- 65 Edwin M. Stanton11:57
- 66 Andrew Johnson8:59
- 67 James A. Garfield15:49
- 68 Chester A. Arthur8:09
- 69 John A. Logan10:32
- 70 James G. Blaine, Part 127:40
- 71 James G. Blaine, Part 241:43
- 72 Samuel J. Tilden13:53
- 73 Henry Ward Beecher23:39
- 74 James Watt12:32
- 75 George Stephenson15:42
- 76 Benjamin Franklin12:47
- 77 Eli Whitney3:29
- 78 Robert Fulton12:54
- 79 Elias Howe, Jnr.17:16
- 80 Isaac M. Singer5:30
- 81 Richard M. Hoe7:31
- 82 Charles Goodyear8:53
- 83 Professor S.F.B. Morse10:51
- 84 Cyrus W. Field11:30
- 85 George M. Pullman7:06
- 86 Thomas A. Edison8:52
- 87 Success And Failure10:43
- 88 Concentration Of Effort9:10
- 89 Self-Reliance11:05
- 90 Economy Of Time7:28
- 91 Causes Of Failure29:49