John Jacob Astor Business and Finance in the Early Republic

• Main Author: Denis Haeger, John (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Wayne State University Press 1991
• Subjects: Regional studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

John Jacob Astor was the best-known and most important American businessman for more than a half-century. His career encompassed the country's formative economic years from the precarious days following the American Revolution to the emergence of an urban-centered manufacturing economy in the l...