When a young couple leaves the city for a neglected New England farm, they trade comfort for hard work and a chance to build something real. Around them sits a town asleep: with fields gone to weeds, credit stretched thin, and neighbors dulled by habit and easy talk.Across the road, an immigrant family shows a different picture—orderly rows of crops, full barns, accounts paid in cash. Seeing what care can do, the newcomers try a new approach. Instead of sermons, they offer small pr...

In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money passing by an auction sale, he successfully bids for seven cases of Castile soap, which he sells to a grocer the same day with a profit of over 70 percent. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe & Company. He also marries an affluent widow, in spite of his young age. Over the years, he starts misusing municipal funds with the aid of the City Treasurer. In 1871, the Great Ch...

Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on ’Change as “Old Gorgon Graham,” to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as 'Piggy.’George Horace Lorimer was an American journalist and author best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post. During his editorial reign, the Post rose from a circulation of several thousand to over a million. He is credited with promo...

Character sketches, combining the best of biography with the finest of narrative - short and illustrative.

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How To Write Special Feature Articles by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer is a timeless guide to the craft of compelling journalism and creative nonfiction writing. This influential work teaches readers how to transform ordinary topics into engaging, informative, and memorable feature articles that capture attention and connect deeply with audiences. With practical insight and professional expertise, Bleyer reveals the essential techniques of research, storytelling, structure, and style that defin...

Letters and More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son presents George Horace Lorimer’s famous Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son and its lesser known but equally hilarious sequel, More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son.With his unique dry wit, Lorimer lampoons the attitudes of the newly moneyed classes of the Gilded Age – characters straight out of The Great Gatsby – in a series of fictional exchanges between John ‘Ol...

In Character Building are thirty seven addresses that Booker T. Washington gave before students, faculty, and guests at the Tuskegee Institute. These addresses take the form of timeless advice on a number of subjects, very motivational and uplifting. Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and not concerned enough about civil rights. It would not be until after his death that the world would find out that he had i...

Bill Nye's Red Book: New Edition is a collection of witty and humorous essays by the beloved American humorist Bill Nye. Known for his sharp satire, Nye's essays cover a variety of topics, often poking fun at the absurdities of everyday life, politics, and human nature. The Red Book is an extension of his characteristic comedic style, blending wordplay, satire, and absurd exaggeration to entertain readers.In this volume, Nye tackles subjects ranging from the humorous aspects of social cust...

The book is an autobiographical account of the author's early life and his family. He intended to write a second volume covering his ministerial career and his life as a novelist but he died not long after this one was published.

"Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son" is a collection of fictional letters written by George Horace Lorimer. This book follows the success of Lorimer's earlier work, "Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son."The letters in these volumes are presented as advice from the self-made millionaire, Old Gorgon Graham, to his son, Pierrepont. Through humorous and insightful letters, Graham offers wisdom, life lessons, and practical advice on business, success, ...