Chicago means money. Meet the families who made it.
Swift. Armour. Pullman. Pritzker. Wilson. Wrigley. Ward. MacArthur. Sears. Morton, as in salt. Walgreen, as in drugstore. Nielsen, as in television ratings. McNally, as in atlas. The Chicago phonebook reads like a glossary of American business, because Chicago, as the saying went, "has a beautiful sound, because Chicago means money."
The Fortune Builders is the group biography of the families behind those names: the meatpackers, mail-order kings, railcar barons, gum makers, and salt merchants who turned a swamp town into the capital of the American century. Dramatic rises, dynastic feuds, ballroom rivalries, and the kind of tasty social gossip that only old money produces.
Essential reading for fans of Gilded Age and Robber Baron history, Chicago natives and transplants, students of American industrial dynasties, and anyone who has ever wondered who put their name on the building.
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By Edwin Darby
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It was said that, "Chicago has a beautiful sound because Chicago means money." The city's phonebook is the language of American business: Swift, Armour, Wilson, Pullman, MacArthur, Pritzker, Wrigley, Ward, Sears, Morton as in salt, Walgreen as in drugstore, Nielsen as in television ratings and McNally as in atlas. This is story of those famous Chicago families. Filled with dramatic success stories, fascinating anecdotes, and tasty morsels of social gossip, The Fortune Builders is a unique biography of Chicago's power brokers -- the men and women who made Chicago what it is today.
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