A Castle in the Clouds: Tom Plant and the American Dream
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The story of Tom Plant (1859-1941) gives us a gritty, real-life view of the American dream. Born into a poor French-Canadian family in Bath, Maine on the eve of the Civil War, he began his career as a boy laborer, cutting ice on the Kennebec River. Tom then became a union shoe-maker in the "shoe capital of the world," in Massachusetts, financing his first workshop with a baseball wager. He went on to pioneer new trends in American business and to...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0991542703
ISBN13:9780991542703
Release Date:January 2014
Publisher:Archipelago Inc.
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
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