by Project Muse, Wiencek, Henry
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In 1900, just a few months after the deadly hurricane of September, W. L. Moody Jr. and his family moved into the four-story mansion at the corner of Broadway and Twenty-sixth Street in Galveston. For the next eight decades, the Moody family occupied the 28,000-square-foot home:…
A rousing, funny, straight-talking, inspirational and generally awesome book from social entrepreneur Lucy Perry, woven around the lessons she's learned from working with Australian legend Dr Catherine Hamlin and other inspiring women, which urges us all to step up, speak out, m…
A biography of speculator and philanthropist George Soros, focusing on the last decade and the work done by his Open Society Foundations
A biography of speculator and philanthropist George Soros, focusing on the last decade and the work done by his Open Society Foundations.
George Soros is a billionaire and a philanthropist, a social activist who uses his wealth to champion social causes and change the world. With access to Soros and his Open Society Foundations, Anna Porter examines the growth of the man and the organization, the causes he has cha…
A biography of speculator and philanthropist George Soros, focusing on the last decade and the work done by his Open Society Foundations.
"Johns Hopkins destroyed his private papers so thoroughly that no credible biography exists of the Baltimore Quaker titan. One of America's richest men and the largest single shareholder of the Baltimore et Ohio Railroad, Hopkins was also one of the city's defining developers. I…
"Johns Hopkins destroyed his private papers so thoroughly that no credible biography exists of the Baltimore Quaker titan. One of America's richest men and the largest single shareholder of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Hopkins was also one of the city's defining developers. In…
"Johns Hopkins destroyed his private papers so thoroughly that no credible biography exists of the Baltimore Quaker titan. One of America's richest men and the largest single shareholder of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Hopkins was also one of the city's defining developers. In…
