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"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.
- Chapters
- Preface, Introduction, Quotations
- Daniel Drew
- Russell Sage
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Amos Lawrence
- Horace B. Claflin
- William E. Dodge
- Jay Gould
- John Wannamaker
- Alexander T. Stewart
- Nicholas Longworth
- Robert Bonner
- William G. Fargo
- James C. Flood
- John W. MacKay
- James C. Fair
- Horace Greeley
- Thurlow Weed
- George W. Childs
- James Gordon Bennett
- Phineas T. Barnum
- Matthew Vassar
- John Jacob Astor
- Potter Palmer
- James Harper
- Henry Disston
- Peter Cooper
- George Law
- Darius O. Mills
- Stephen Girard
- Moses Taylor
- William C. Ralston
- George Peabody
- William W. Corcoran
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild
- John Adams, Part 1
- John Adams, Part 2
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Marshall
- Alexander Hamilton
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- Lewis Cass
- John C. Calhoun
- Robert Y. Hayne
- Daniel Webster
- Andrew Jackson
- Thomas H. Benton
- Henry Clay
- Martin Van Buren
- Stephen Arnold Douglass
- Abbott Lawrence
- Alexander H. Stephens
- Millard Fillmore
- William H. Seward
- Horatio Seymour
- Winfield S. Hancock
- George B. McClellan
- Ulysses Simpson Grant
- Stonewall Jackson
- General Robert E. Lee
- Henry Wilson
- Abraham Lincoln
- Edward Everett
- Edwin M. Stanton
- Andrew Johnson
- James A. Garfield
- Chester A. Arthur
- John A. Logan
- James G. Blaine, Part 1
- James G. Blaine, Part 2
- Samuel J. Tilden
- Henry Ward Beecher
- James Watt
- George Stephenson
- Benjamin Franklin
- Eli Whitney
- Robert Fulton
- Elias Howe, Jnr.
- Isaac M. Singer
- Richard M. Hoe
- Charles Goodyear
- Professor S.F.B. Morse
- Cyrus W. Field
- George M. Pullman
- Thomas A. Edison
- Success And Failure
- Concentration Of Effort
- Self-Reliance
- Economy Of Time
- Causes Of Failure