This book shows how in America socialism is a puny weakling at best and the future belongs to the American businessman.

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Categories: Banking & Finance This title is part of the Business Histories list. Of Interest: An Entrepreneurial History of the United States Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael Milken Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon Ling: The Rise, Fall, and Return of a Texas Titan Made in the USA: The History of American Business Takeover: The New Wall Street Warriors: The Men, the Money, the Impact The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition The Luckiest Guy in the World The Rise of Today's Rich and Super-Rich The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerate Kings The Self-Made Man: Stress and Success American Style The Titans of Takeover

This book originally submitted to the Graduate School of Northwestern University in 1975 as a doctoral dissertation, aims to analyze the reformist experimentations undertaken by American capitalists from 1886 to 1960. Based on the premise that twentieth century reform has regularly consisted of efforts to salvage capitalism under the direction of powerful businessmen, McQuaid has studied the careers of six men who spanned the spectrum of industrial background and reformist approach.

Selecting men whose actions placed them on the liberal fringe of the business community, he chronicles the successes and failures of varied reform approaches. This well-documented study defines the limits of capitalistic liberalism and how these limits have evolved over time-particularly in the important areas of employer/employee and business/government relations.

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In his 1975 PhD dissertation at Northwestern U., Quaid (history, Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH) examined how US businessmen rather than reform/radical groups responded to the country's transformation from an agrarian to technological society. Lacks an index and upgrading of the text quality since originally published by Garland in the series American business history. 

Kim McQuaid is a historian, educator, and writer. He is currently a Professor of History at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, where he has taught since 1977. The author of several books of historical and political importance, he was named a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1970. He is listed in the 58th Edition of Who's Who in America.

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