Our Crowd

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504026284
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Our Crowd" written by Stephen Birmingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 396 pages. 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.

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781493057757
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Crowd written by Stephen Birmingham and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Crowd is Stephen Birmingham's New York Times-bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in America.

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781579124359
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Crowd written by Stephen Birmingham and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of upper class Jewish families of New York who viewed themselves as being elite and would only marry within "Our crowd," including such families as the Loeb, Straus, Goldman, and Guggenheim.

Author : Andrew McAfee
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393254305
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future written by Andrew McAfee and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 320 pages. 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.

Author : Jean L. Baer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Self-chosen written by Jean L. Baer and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rachel Kushner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982157690
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hard Crowd written by Rachel Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 272 pages. 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.

Author : Kenneth L. Fisher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118973054
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beat the Crowd written by Kenneth L. Fisher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Train your brain to be a real contrarian and outsmart the crowd Beat the Crowd is the real contrarian’s guide to investing, with comprehensive explanations of how a true contrarian investor thinks and acts – and why it works more often than not. Bestselling author Ken Fisher breaks down the myths and cuts through the noise to present a clear, unvarnished view of timeless market realities, and the ways in which a contrarian approach to investing will outsmart the herd. In true Ken Fisher style, the book explains why the crowd often goes astray—and how you can stay on track. Contrarians understand how headlines really affect the market and which noise and fads they should tune out. Beat the Crowd is a primer to the contrarian strategy, teaching readers simple tricks to think differently and get it right more often than not. Discover the limits of forecasting and how far ahead you should look Learn why political controversy matter less the louder it gets Resurrect long-forgotten, timeless tricks and truths in markets Find out how the contrarian approach makes you right more often than wrong A successful investment strategy requires information, preparation, a little bit of brainpower, and a larger bit of luck. Pursuit of the mythical perfect strategy frequently lands folks in a cacophony of talking heads and twenty-four hour noise, but Beat the Crowd cuts through the mental clutter and collects the pristine pieces of actual value into a tactical approach based on going against the grain.

Author : Eric Barrier
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617759597
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Move the Crowd written by Eric Barrier and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative illustrator Kirk Parrish brings the iconic song "Move the Crowd" to life for the first time as a children's picture book. With knowledge of self, there's nothing I can't solve At 360 degrees I revolve This is actual fact, it's not an act, it's been proven Indeed and I proceed to make the crowd keep moving Innovative illustrator Kirk Parrish brings the iconic song "Move the Crowd" to life for the first time as a children's picture book. The lyrics to Eric B. and Rakim's hit song provide the inspiration for this instant classic. Follow along as Parrish pairs the lyrics with colorful illustrations about a boy being absorbed into his stereo and dropped into a colorless world where the music is dull and the people uninspired. The ensuing transformation he brings to the crowd with his music is one that the whole family can enjoy together.

Author : Ann Majchrzak
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030255573
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unleashing the Crowd written by Ann Majchrzak and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book disrupts the way practitioners and academic scholars think about crowds, crowdsourcing, innovation, and new organizational forms in this emerging period of ubiquitous access to the internet. The authors argue that the current approach to crowdsourcing unnecessarily limits the crowd to offering ideas, locking out those of us with knowledge about a problem. They use data from 25 case studies of flash crowds — anonymous strangers answering online announcements to participate in a 7-10 day innovation challenge — half of whom were unleashed from the limitations of focusing on ideas. Yet, these crowds were able to develop new business models, new product lines, and offer useful solutions to global problems in fields as diverse as health care insurance, software development, and societal change. This book, which offers a theory of collective production of innovative solutions explaining the practices that the crowds organically followed, will revolutionize current assumptions about how innovation and crowdsourcing should be managed for commercial as well as societal purposes.

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504095561
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Secret Aristocracy written by Stephen Birmingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “entertaining and perceptive” history of America’s most exclusive families, from the Brahmins of New England to the Grandees of California (The Washington Post). America has always been a constitutionally classless society, yet an American aristocracy emerged anyway—a private club whose members run in the same circles and observe the same unwritten rules. Here, renowned social historian Stephen Birmingham reveals the inner workings of this aristocracy. He identifies which families in which cities have always mattered, and how they’ve defined America. America’s Secret Aristocracy offers an inside look at the estates, marriages, and financial empires of America’s most powerful families—from the Randolphs of Virginia and the Roosevelts of New York to the Carillos and Ortegas of California. With countless anecdotes about our nation’s elite, including interviews with their modern-day descendants, Birmingham presents colorful portraits that capture the true definition, essence, and customs of America’s aristocracy.