San Antonio College Library

Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told. Until now.

With the collapse of the Soviet system, the long-neglected history of the early capitalists is being recovered and rewritten. Once regarded as the "losers" in the Russian Revolution, these merchants can now be seen as early pioneers in Russia's transformation to a free market economy. This book is the first joint Russian-American collaborative project on the history of Russian entrepreneurship. Merchant Moscow puts a human face on early Russian capitalism....

Follows Hans Selderson, a German Jew and decorated World War I veteran living in Germany and working as a textile merchant, and his family as they encounter troubles in the aftermath of the war. Based on the author's life.

"At the age of eighteen, Henry Shaw (1800-1889) left his home in Sheffield, England, to import manufactured goods from St. Louis on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Two decades of financial success allowed him to relinquish his business operations and take up more genteel pursuits." "Over the next three decades, Shaw transformed his estate, Tower Grove, into one of the nation's leading botanical gardens, Laid out according to gardenesque principles,...