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Click for a review of the book by Dave Caddell on oldSpeak.com. (From the cover)
"This is a remarkable account of the rise of the Bunn business empire in Illinois--long before the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age, that provides a balanced and intriguing account of business ethics and integrity. Bunn's patronage of Abraham Lincoln establishes an unknown connection
between politics and business money in Lincoln's career, but represents a moderate, even compassionate, political model that 30 years later during the career of Mark Hanna seemed quaint by comparison. This book offers a new look at the connections between business and political power that, in these troubled days of Enron-like scandals, ought to be widely read, and more widely practiced."
Dr. Kurt Hohenstein, Esq., Professor, Hampden-Sydney College.
(From the cover)
"Andrew T. Call presents a thorough, scholarly and engaging biographical business study of the career of Jacob Bunn, a remarkable man endowed with enormous entrepreneurial and organizational talents, high integrity, compassion for his community and commitment to excellence. The amount of solid research collected, evaluated and discussed in this book is very impressive. This treatise is more than a tale of a businessman and his business ventures; it is a description of the American
ideal."
Fredric J. Friedberg, Esq., Author of The Illinois Watch: The Life and Times
of a Great American Watch Company, Schiffer Publishing, 2004, and Senior
Vice President and General Counsel at Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.
"The web site is elegant and informative; I love all the great links. The book looks very impressive and may be the start of a new genre: the biography of a businessman combined with a business and economic history of his time, with social and ethical commentary."
Joe Rosenstiel, April 4, 2005, descendant of C.H. Rosenstiel from the book
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