Resultados para "JP" en Biografías y memorias

J. P. Morgan is more than just the name on one of the largest banks in America. He was a man who altered the course of American finance and the chief financier for the strategic interests of the titans of the day, such as Carnegie and Rockefeller. He also financed new and ingenious technologies developed by Thomas Edison and was a visionary who saw the potential in Nikola Tesla. Hear all about him and find areas that you may have in common with this towering titan.

J. P. Delaney's crime novel The Girl Before has taken the world by storm. He joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to tell us about the writing process and the upcoming film adaptation.

J. P. Smythe joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss his latest book, his writing process, and the authors and books that inspire him.

Dozens of men were called "robber barons", but few were as notorious or rich as John Pierpont Morgan, a financier and banker who bankrolled the consolidation of behemoth corporations across various industries. Morgan was behind the merging of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company, which subsequently became General Electric, still known simply as GE across the world today.

Father David Bauer changed lives - at the rink, in the classroom, and at the pulpit. Bauer's dream created the first truly national Canadian hockey team. In 1963 that unique group represented Canada abroad and were committed to both country and to Father Bauer. Whether shepherding the hockey program at St. Michael's College in Toronto or the men's national team out of the University of British Columbia, Bauer was both spiritual leader and trailblazer.

The story of a year-long confrontation in 1972 between the Vancouver police and the Clark Park gang, a band of unruly characters who ruled the city's east side. Corrupt cops, hapless criminals, and murder figure in this story that questions which gang was tougher: the petty criminals or the police themselves.

The five Titans of Industry discussed in this series are, without a doubt, the most influential and impactful men in American history. Without any one of them, the entire landscape of the US would be different. They are the founders of the American economy.

Do you love cars? Do you love interesting stories about startups? Do you love crazy stories about founders and their ups and downs? This book, and the books in this series, are for you.

That William Brockwell, who had touched the upper reaches of cricketing greatness and was talented in other ways, slipped badly is, alas, a tragic fact of history; and cruelly illustrative of the knife edge upon which professional cricketers of the "gold age" of English cricket lived.

On the morning of July 3, 1915, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., one of the most famous names in finance, was entertaining guests at his sprawling Long Island estate when the doorbell unexpectedly rang. An armed man forced his way inside. At the same time, authorities in Washington, DC, were investigating a shocking bombing at the US Capitol.

A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue and two of American history’s most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan’s time are more urgent than ever.

The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet. Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings these men and their times to life. The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how these four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation that could not have been imagined earlier.

Do you love cars? Do you love interesting stories about start-ups? Do you love crazy stories about founders and their ups and downs? This book, and the books in this series, are for you

Behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google—and how it's reshaping the way we think about technology The rise of smartphones and tablets has altered the industry of making computers. At the center of this change are Apple and Google, two companies whose philosophies, leaders, and...

A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten...

På en villavej i Fredericia bor en 86-årig kvinde med en gribende, men også grusom historie. Arlette Levy Andersen levede over et år i koncentrationslejrene Birkenau og Auschwitz i slutningen af Anden Verdenskrig. I fire årtier fortalte Arlette end ikke sin egen jødiske familie, hvad der hændte, fra hun blev arresteret af Gestapo på et fransk universitet i efteråret 1943, til hun i maj 1945 stærkt afkræftet ankom med toget til sin hjemby Paris, hvor hun blev hentet af sine forældre. I mange år forsøgte Arlette at glemme.

Hun hedder Vicky Alvarez. Hun er vidunderlig. Hun optræder i hans fars revy. Han er 10 år da hun går i hans blod. Hun lærer ham at mennesker er svigefulde. Igennem hele sit liv vil han altid være et skridt foran, parat til at svigte, før han selv bliver det. Han er Pinball Wizard, han kender spillets regler, han spiller det bedre end nogen.

Under et ophold i New York for at skrive en bog om Hillary Clinton oplever Morten Sabroe, hvordan han med hende som spejl trækkes ind i den dramatiske historie om den vinternat for mange år siden, hvor han hjalp sin døende mor hinsides. Langsomt optrevler Morten Sabroe den årelange og ødelæggende kamp mellem ham og moren, en stærk og viljefast kvinde forud for sin tid. Det er både barsk, hudløs og også meget morsom læsning, når Sabroe gør op med en kvindetype, han har brugt en stor del af sit liv på at gøre op med.

Helle Stangerup var kun tretten år, da hun første gang kom i pressens søgelys. Det skete i 1953, den nye grundlov var netop vedtaget, og en journalist ville vide, hvordan det mon var at gå i klasse med landets kommende Dronning. Journalisten fik aldrig noget svar, og Helle Stangerup har siden da konsekvent holdt skodderne lukkede omkring sig selv og sit farverige liv. I Bag skodderne åbner hun endelig og fortæller løs. Om sin opvækst i "de vilde diskussioners hjem", om de kendte og de magtfulde, der beskrives for det gode, men også for det mindre gode. Om arbejdet bag sit forfatterskab, ligesom hun giver en livfuld skildring af ægteskabet med Adam Knuth og deres opbygning af Knuthenborg Safaripark.

I "Drabschefen: nye sager" fortæller tidligere drabschef for Københavns Politi, Ove Dahl, om efterforskningsarbejdet ved de mest opsigtsvækkende mord, han har stået i spidsen for at opklare. Han beskriver en række nye sager, der har domineret i medierne, og hvis råhed og brutalitet har gjort et stærkt indtryk på den garvede efterforskningsleder. I bogen tager Ove Dahl læserne med tæt på den barske virkelighed og giver et unikt indblik i politiets arbejde. Bl.a. fortæller han om opklaringen af drabet på en norsk stewardesse på SAS-hotellet i København, om hue-mordet, hvor en ung mand bliver slået ihjel på Strøget, fordi han ikke vil af med sin hue og om Amagermand-sagen, hvor en 45-årig familiefar er dømt for syv voldtægter og to mord.