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American Dynasties
A History of Founding and Influential American Families
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Historian Rachel Dickinson offers dense biographies of family wealth and power in the United States. Prominent American dynasties shared their wealth with their family members as well as charities, and used their talent and drive to shape industries, government and the arts. Dickinson offers compelling history and business lessons – from the Vanderbilts to the Kennedys – in this collection of fascinating life stories.
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Rachel Dickinson also wrote The Notorious Reno Gang: The Wild Story of the West’s First Brotherhood of Thieves, Assassins and Train Robbers and Falconer on the Edge: A Man, His Birds, and the Vanishing Landscape of the American West.
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