The Greater Good: How Philanthropy Drives the American Economy and Can Save Capitalism, by Claire Gaudiani. Times Books, 273 pages, $25.
For Claire Gaudiani, the former president of Connecticut College, philanthropy isn’t just aboutputtingyour nameonahospital wing or posing for a photographer from the Sunday”Styles”section. Rather, whether you pony up $1,000 to hear Bob Read More
After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party that Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905 , by Patricia Beard. HarperCollins, 402 pages, $25.95.
Patricia Beard kicks off her book with a string of superlatives. James Hazen Hyde, the son of Equitable Life Assurance Society founder Henry, was “the handsomest Read More
Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003 , by Douglas Brinkley. Viking, 858 pages, $34.95.
In one of his notebooks, Henry Ford once wrote, “I’m going to see that no man comes to know me.” In this dreadnought of a book (764 pages, and that’s without the endnotes!) Read More
