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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His -- And the Nation's -- Prosperity

First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His -- And the Nation's -- Prosperity

Lengel, Edward G.

Hardcover

Business BiographiesPresidents & Heads of StateRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 0306823470
ISBN13: 9780306823473
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: Jan 26 2016
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The United States was conceived in business, founded on business, and operated as a business -- all because of the entrepreneurial mind of the greatest American businessman of any generation: George Washington.

Using Washington's extensive but often overlooked financial papers, Edward G. Lengel chronicles the fascinating and inspiring story of how this self-educated man built the Mount Vernon estate into a vast multilayered enterprise and prudently managed meager resources to win the war of independence. Later, as president, he helped establish the national economy on a solid footing and favorably positioned the nation for the Industrial Revolution. Washington's steadfast commitment to the core economic principles of probity, transparency, careful management, and calculated boldness are timeless lessons that should inspire and instruct investors even today.

First Entrepreneur will transform how ordinary Americans think about George Washington and how his success in commercial enterprise influenced and guided the emerging nation.

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