The Story of Bank of America

The Story of Bank of America
Author: Marquis James
Publisher: Beard Books
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2002-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781587981456

This biography of a bank is largely a narrative that lauds the founder of the bank, A. P. Giannini, and his son for their ability to expand the bank and its assets from its origins within the Bank of Italy in 1906 to the early 1950s. This reprint contains no additional material. The 1954 copyright

Compendium of History and Biography of the City of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan

Compendium of History and Biography of the City of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan
Author: Clarence Monroe Burton
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 858
Release: 1908
Genre: History
ISBN:

All history is, perforce, a merciless abridgment, and yet too much can never be written concerning any nation, any people— since each contribution must have a definite value. In the offering of this compendium of history and biography, the publishers lay claim not to any amplification of data in the annals of Detroit and Wayne county, but rather to the condensed, narrative presentation of the history of a section whose records bear the graceful tales of romance and the sterner burdens of definite accomplishment.