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Describes the contributions of modern tycoons who are influencing the non-profit sector by philanthropically redistributing their wealth, in a volume based on in-depth interviews with such figures as Melinda Gates, Suzanne and Bob Wright, and Paul Tudor Jones.

"Drawing on 2 decades covering global development as editor in chief of Devex, Raj Kumar explores how nontraditional models of philanthropy and aid are empowering the world's poorest people to make progress. Old aid was driven by good intentions and relied on big-budget projects from a few government aid agencies, like the World Bank and USAID. Today, corporations, Silicon Valley start-ups, and billionaire philanthropists are a disrupting force pushing...

This biography of the business tycoon and philanthropist also chronicles the rise of big business in America.

The story of Hugh Roy Cullen and Mrs. Cullen, and their family, is one of the most inspiring we have had the privilege of publishing. This is not because Mr. Cullen became one of the world's richest men. He is not rich now, because he has given most of his wealth away. Nor was he always rich - he began life a comparatively poor boy, who went to work in his early teens. This story is significant and inspiring for three reasons. First, finding oil was...

This biography of Andrew Carnegie emphasizes the economic dimension of his career in industry. It examines his life as a dynamic innovator during the period when the steel industry rapidly expanded and the United States became a major industrial power. Carnegie rose from a poverty-stricken Scottish childhood to a position of international industrial leadership, philanthropy, and peace advocacy, by means of intelligence, entrepreneurship, ambition,...

Chronicles the adventures of orphan and college student, Judy Abbott, through her letters to her anonymous benefactor, Daddy Long Legs.

This episode of Biography explores the life and legacy of iron and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, an immigrant who rose to become one of the world's wealthiest men.

As President Obama began to unveil sweeping government programs to restore the crippled economy, the pubic and media drew numerous comparisons with the actions of Franklin Roosevelt, who faced the grim prospects of the Great Depression almost eighty years earlier. Now, Steven Fenberg tells the story of Jesse Holman Jones, the Houston businessman who went to Washington as an appointed official and provided the pragmatic leadership that salvaged capitalism...

A biography of America's first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., drawing from Rockefeller's personal papers to provide information about his rustic origins, his creation of Standard Oil, his often controversial business tactics, and his personal relationships and attributes. John D. Rockefeller, Sr. - history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty - is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of...

Argues that author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, noted for his campaign to open schools for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, has not been truthful about his past, his reasons for opening schools, or his abduction by the Taliban.