"Our Crowd"

2015-12-01 History

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Release : 2015-12-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 284/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book "Our Crowd" written by Stephen Birmingham. This book was released on 2015-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller that traces the rise of the Guggenheims, the Goldmans, and other families from immigrant poverty to social prominence. They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of “the 400,” a register of New York’s most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds. In response, they created their own elite “100,” a privileged society as opulent and exclusive as the one that had refused them entry. “Our Crowd” is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries; a riveting story of the bankers, brokers, financiers, philanthropists, and business tycoons who started with nothing and turned their family names into American institutions.

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

2017-06-27 Business & Economics

Author : Andrew McAfee
Release : 2017-06-27
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 305/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future written by Andrew McAfee. This book was released on 2017-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big data and the sharing economy. But McAfee and Brynjolfsson also wisely acknowledge the limitations of their futurology and avoid over-simplification.” —Financial Times In The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson predicted some of the far-reaching effects of digital technologies on our lives and businesses. Now they’ve written a guide to help readers make the most of our collective future. Machine | Platform | Crowd outlines the opportunities and challenges inherent in the science fiction technologies that have come to life in recent years, like self-driving cars and 3D printers, online platforms for renting outfits and scheduling workouts, or crowd-sourced medical research and financial instruments.

The Hard Crowd

2021-04-06 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Rachel Kushner
Release : 2021-04-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 690/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Hard Crowd written by Rachel Kushner. This book was released on 2021-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.

Faces in the Crowd

2014-04-21 Fiction

Author : Valeria Luiselli
Release : 2014-04-21
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 550/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Faces in the Crowd written by Valeria Luiselli. This book was released on 2014-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014 Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014 "An extraordinary new literary talent."--The Daily Telegraph "In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your nerve endings, opening your eyes and heart. Youth, from unruly student years to early motherhood and a loving marriage--and then, in the book's second half, wilder and something else altogether, the fearless, half-mad imagination of youth, I might as well call it—has rarely been so freshly, charmingly, and unforgettably portrayed. Valeria Luiselli is a masterful, entirely original writer."--Francisco Goldman In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is desperate to publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet. And in Philadelphia, Gilberto Owen recalls his friendship with Lorca, and the young woman he saw in the windows of passing trains. Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. "Luiselli's haunting debut novel, about a young mother living in Mexico City who writes a novel looking back on her time spent working as a translator of obscure works at a small independent press in Harlem, erodes the concrete borders of everyday life with a beautiful, melancholy contemplation of disappearance. . . . Luiselli plays with the idea of time and identity with grace and intuition." —Publishers Weekly

That's My Crowd!

2004 Fundamentalism

Author : Shelton L. Smith
Release : 2004
Genre : Fundamentalism
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Book Rating : 933/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book That's My Crowd! written by Shelton L. Smith. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the religious climate of today, it is important to know what God says our crowd should be. Through the use of well over two hundred passages of scripture, Dr. Shelton Smith defines the fundamental crowd for us. Evaluating our crowd by the standard of the Word of God may sometimes cost us some friends, and they may accuse us of abandoning them. But our separation from them will not be because the Bible has changed. It will be because they have hoisted anchor and drifted with the winds. Make sure you are sailing in safe waters with the right crowd.

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