"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)
Chapters
1 Preface, Introduction, Quotations 7 min 2 Daniel Drew 6 min 3 Russell Sage 4 min 4 Cornelius Vanderbilt 10 min 5 Amos Lawrence 10 min 6 Horace B. Claflin 4 min 7 William E. Dodge 4 min 8 Jay Gould 15 min 9 John Wannamaker 4 min 10 Alexander T. Stewart 8 min 11 Nicholas Longworth 5 min 12 Robert Bonner 5 min 13 William G. Fargo 3 min 14 James C. Flood 5 min 15 John W. MacKay 5 min 16 James C. Fair 12 min 17 Horace Greeley 16 min 18 Thurlow Weed 7 min 19 George W. Childs 11 min 20 James Gordon Bennett 8 min 21 Phineas T. Barnum 4 min 22 Matthew Vassar 3 min 23 John Jacob Astor 5 min 24 Potter Palmer 4 min 25 James Harper 8 min 26 Henry Disston 4 min 27 Peter Cooper 8 min 28 George Law 4 min 29 Darius O. Mills 5 min 30 Stephen Girard 9 min 31 Moses Taylor 4 min 32 William C. Ralston 7 min 33 George Peabody 7 min 34 William W. Corcoran 5 min 35 Nathan Mayer Rothschild 10 min 36 John Adams, Part 1 37 min 37 John Adams, Part 2 42 min 38 Thomas Jefferson 15 min 39 John Marshall 8 min 40 Alexander Hamilton 8 min 41 James Madison 32 min 42 James Monroe 12 min 43 Lewis Cass 4 min 44 John C. Calhoun 13 min 45 Robert Y. Hayne 5 min 46 Daniel Webster 33 min 47 Andrew Jackson 20 min 48 Thomas H. Benton 14 min 49 Henry Clay 10 min 50 Martin Van Buren 8 min 51 Stephen Arnold Douglass 7 min 52 Abbott Lawrence 3 min 53 Alexander H. Stephens 21 min 54 Millard Fillmore 7 min 55 William H. Seward 11 min 56 Horatio Seymour 7 min 57 Winfield S. Hancock 8 min 58 George B. McClellan 5 min 59 Ulysses Simpson Grant 8 min 60 Stonewall Jackson 5 min 61 General Robert E. Lee 9 min 62 Henry Wilson 5 min 63 Abraham Lincoln 30 min 64 Edward Everett 10 min 65 Edwin M. Stanton 12 min 66 Andrew Johnson 9 min 67 James A. Garfield 16 min 68 Chester A. Arthur 8 min 69 John A. Logan 11 min 70 James G. Blaine, Part 1 28 min 71 James G. Blaine, Part 2 42 min 72 Samuel J. Tilden 14 min 73 Henry Ward Beecher 24 min 74 James Watt 13 min 75 George Stephenson 16 min 76 Benjamin Franklin 13 min 77 Eli Whitney 3 min 78 Robert Fulton 13 min 79 Elias Howe, Jnr 17 min 80 Isaac M. Singer 6 min 81 Richard M. Hoe 8 min 82 Charles Goodyear 9 min 83 Professor S.F.B. Morse 11 min 84 Cyrus W. Field 12 min 85 George M. Pullman 7 min 86 Thomas A. Edison 9 min 87 Success And Failure 11 min 88 Concentration Of Effort 9 min 89 Self-Reliance 11 min 90 Economy Of Time 7 min 91 Causes Of Failure 30 min
