The New York Times Century of Business - Hardcover

Norris, Floyd; Bockelmann, Christine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071355898 ISBN 13: 9780071355896

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1999

Synopsis

Relive the 20th century's pivotal events Now you can capture all the immediacy, balance and insight of The New York Times' reporting across ten momentous decades. From the Model T to the McDonald's hamburger, from the first talking pictures to the Internet, The New York Times Century of Business, by Floyd Norris and Christine Bockelmann, with a foreword by former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, chronicles for you the economic shifts and boisterous business activity of the past century. You'll follow vital developments in industry, technology, finance and innovation through peace and war in Times headlines, front-page articles, editorials, book reviews, obituaries and unforgettable photos -- and see vividly how major developments of the 20th century have been linked to the inventions, vision and daring, successes and failures of businesses and their leaders, from Henry Ford to Bill Gates.

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Review:

Anyone who likes to spend an occasional afternoon at the public library in front of a microfiche machine pouring over old newspapers and magazines will find The New York Times Century of Business a more convenient and pleasurable diversion. Beginning with J.P. Morgan and concluding with Bill Gates, Floyd Norris, the chief financial correspondent for The Times, and Christine Bockelmann, a former business editor at the paper, have collected and reprinted over 100 of the most important and intriguing business stories that have run in The Times over the last century. The real fun in viewing history this way--especially business history--is the immediacy that's often lost in other retellings. For example, when the markets crashed in 1929, the headline read, "Stocks Collapse in 16,410,030-Share Day," which is followed by the hopeful rejoinder "But Rally at Close Cheers Brokers." The story concludes, "Wall Street was a street of vanished hopes, of curiously silent apprehension and of a sort of paralyzed hypnosis yesterday." The other stories, such as "Dies in Vat of Hot Beer" and "Electronic Computer Flashes Answers, May Speed Engineering" help to make this book irresistible. And, who knows, it might even save you a trip to the library. --Harry C. Edwards

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0071355898
• ISBN 13: 9780071355896
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Bockelmann Christine, Norris Floyd