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• Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848
• Bond, Scott, 1852 or 1853-1933
• Boulton, Matthew, 1728-1809
• Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
• Chrysler, Walter P. (Walter Percy), 1875-1940
• Dayton, George Draper, 1857-1938
• Dexter, Timothy, 1747-1806
• Doheny, Edward L. (Edward Laurence), 1856-1935
• Dunraven, Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, Earl of, 1841-1926
• Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
• Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895
• Fisk, James, Jr., 1835-1872
• Flint, Charles R. (Charles Ranlett), 1850-1934
• Ford, Henry, 1863-1947
• Gould, Jay, 1836-1892
• Huntington, Henry Edwards, 1850-1927
• Irving, Herbert
• Juneau, Solomon Laurent, 1793-1856
• Lane, Lunsford, 1803-approximately 1863
• Lauder, Leonard A.
• Mills, Anson, 1834-1924
• Mond, Henry
• Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 1833-1896
• Oppenheimer, Ernest, Sir, 1880-1957
• Otero, Miguel Antonio, 1859-1944
• Ramsey, J. G. M. (James Gettys McGready), 1797-1884
• Roberts, Joseph J. (Joseph Jenkins), 1809-1876
• Robertson, Pat
• Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-2021
• Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920
• Siemens, Werner von, 1816-1892
• Soros, George
• Stillman, James, 1850-1918
• Trump, Donald, 1946-
• Villard, Henry, 1835-1900
• Walker, David, 1785-1830
• Wilson, Eugene E., 1887-1974

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• Businesspersons
• Entrepreneurs
• Businessperson

• Ernest Oppenheimer and the Economic Development of Southern Africa (Cape Town; London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), by T. E. Gregory (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)

• Makers (2009), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
• The Daffodil Mystery (first published ca. 1920), by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text and page images)

• System (1900-1927) (full serial archives)

• Moral Reasoning at Work: Rethinking Ethics in Organizations (second edition; 2019), by Øyvind Kvalnes (PDF and Epub at springer.com)
• Doing the Right Thing: A Value Based Economy (second edition; London: Ubiquity Press, 2017), by Arjo Klamer
  • multiple formats with commentary at Ubiquity Press
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Business Ethics (electronic edition, c2009), by William Frey and Jose A. Cruz-Cruz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Conscience and Business (ACSJC occasional paper #13; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 1992), by John Langan (PDF in Australia)
• Ethics and Economy: After Levinas (London: MayFlyBooks, 2009), by Dag G. Aasland (PDF and HTML with commentary at MayFlyBooks)
• Surveillance Giants: How the Business Model of Google and Facebook Threatens human Rights (in multiple languages; 2019), by Amnesty International (PDF files with commentary at amnesty.org)
• The Bible in the Counting-House, by Henry A. Boardman (page images at MOA)
• Creating and Maintaining an Ethical Corporate Climate, by Woodstock Theological Center Seminar in Business Ethics (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Lawless Wealth: The Origin of Some Great American Fortunes (New York: B. W. Dodge and Co., 1908), by Charles Edward Russell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sin and Society: An Analysis of Latter-Day Iniquity (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907), by Edward Alsworth Ross, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Theopolis Americana: An Essay on the Golden Street of the Holy City (1710), by Cotton Mather, ed. by Reiner Smolinski (PDF at unl.edu)

• John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1991), by John D. Haeger (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• From Slavery to Wealth: The Life of Scott Bond; The Rewards of Honesty, Industry, Economy and Perseverance (Madison, AR: Journal Printing Co., 1917), by Dan. A. Rudd and Theo. Bond, contrib. by James Carroll Napier
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Lives of the Engineers: Boulton and Watt; The Steam Engine (based on the 1904 J. Murray edition, with additional images and notes), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• Andrew Carnegie: His Methods With His Men (memorial service address, 1919), by Charles M. Schwab
  • page images at Harvard
  • rotated page images at HathiTrust
• Personal Recollections of Andrew Carnegie (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., c1920), by Frederick Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Anti-Carnegie: Scraps and Comments (1899), by M. F. Campbell and J. C. Campbell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), by Tom Rea (page images at Pitt)
• Think and Grow Rich (Meriden, CT: Ralston Society, 1938), by Napoleon Hill (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, by Andrew Carnegie, ed. by John C. Van Dyke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Life of an American Workman (c1950), by Walter P. Chrysler and Boyden Sparkes (illustrated HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• George Draper Dayton: An Autobiography (privately printed, 1933), by George Draper Dayton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Timothy Dexter and His "Pickle for the Knowing Ones" (New York: New York Public Library, 1922), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1998), by Martin R. Ansell (PDF at Ohio State)

• Past Times and Pastimes (2 volumes; London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1922), by Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin Dunraven
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Menlo Park Reminiscences (3 volumes; Dearborn, MI: Edison Institute, c1937-1941), by Francis Jehl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edison: The Man and His Work (Garden City, NY; Garden City Pub. Co., c1926), by George S. Bryan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), by W. K.-L. Dickson and Antonia Dickson, illust. by R. F. Outcalt, L. Bauhan, and James Ricalton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frank J. Sprague and the Edison Myth (New York: William-Frederick Press, 1947), by Harriet Chapman Jones Sprague (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edison: His Life and Inventions, by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin (Gutenberg text)

• The Life and Work of Friedrich Engels (London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1920), by Zelda K. Coates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: An Introduction to Their Lives and Work, by David Riazanov, trans. by Joshua Kunitz (HTML at marxists.org)
• Marx and Engels on Revolution in America (Little Red Library #6; Chicago: Daily Worker Pub. Co., n.d.), by Heinz Neumann
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at marxists.org

• Life, Adventures, Strange Career and Assassination of Col. James Fisk, Jr.:The Fisk-Stokes Tragedy: All About Miss Mansfield (Philadelphia: Barclay and Co., c1872), by George L. Barclay (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memories of an Active Life: Men, and Ships, and Sealing Wax (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923), by Charles R. Flint (page images at HathiTrust)

• Henry Ford Must Choose (ca. 1941), by Friends of Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at hood.edu)
• The Amazing Story of Henry Ford, the Ideal American and the World's Most Famous Private Citizen: A Complete and Authentic Account of His Life and Surpassing Achievements (Chicago: Printed by M. A. Donohue and Co., c1922), by J. Martin Miller, contrib. by Henry Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Ford's Own Story: How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power That Goes With Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch with Humanity (Forest Hills, NY: E. O. Jones, 1917), by Rose Wilder Lane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Forty Years With Ford (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., c1956), by Charles E. Sorensen, contrib. by S. T. Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Ford vs. Truman H. Newberry, the Famous Senate Election Contest: A Study in American Politics, Legislation and Justice (New York: R. R. Smith, 1935), by Spencer Ervin, contrib. by William Bennett Munro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Ford vs. the American Jew (Rochester, NY: Jewish Pub. Co., c1921), by Abraham. Silverstein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Life and Work, by Henry Ford, contrib. by Samuel Crowther (Gutenberg text)

• The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth: or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould (Philadelphia: J. C. Yorston and Co., 1893), by Trumbull White (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by William B. Friedricks
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press

• Solomon Juneau: A Biography, With Sketches of the Juneau Family (Milwaukee: Printed by Evening Wisconsin Printing Co., c1916), by Isabella Fox
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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