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First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His -- and the Nation's -- Prosperity

Edward G. Lengel

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The United States was conceived in business, founded on business, and operated as a business—all because of the entrepreneurial mind of the greatest American businessman of any generation: George Washington.

Using Washington's extensive but often overlooked financial papers, Edward G. Lengel chronicles the fascinating and inspiring story of how this self-educated man built the Mount Vernon estate into a vast multi-layered enterprise, prudently managed meager resources to win the war of independence, and, as president, helped establish the national economy on a solid footing. Washington's steadfast commitment to the core economic principles of probity, transparency, careful management, and calculated boldness are timeless lessons that should inspire and instruct investors even today.

First Entrepreneur will transform how ordinary Americans think about their history.

Pages: 296

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Release: January 26, 2016

ISBN: 0306823470

ISBN 13: 9780306823473

First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His -- and the Nation's -- Prosperity

Edward G. Lengel

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The United States was conceived in business, founded on business, and operated as a business—all because of the entrepreneurial mind of the greatest American businessman of any generation: George Washington.

Using Washington's extensive but often overlooked financial papers, Edward G. Lengel chronicles the fascinating and inspiring story of how this self-educated man built the Mount Vernon estate into a vast multi-layered enterprise, prudently managed meager resources to win the war of independence, and, as president, helped establish the national economy on a solid footing. Washington's steadfast commitment to the core economic principles of probity, transparency, careful management, and calculated boldness are timeless lessons that should inspire and instruct investors even today.

First Entrepreneur will transform how ordinary Americans think about their history.

Pages: 296

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Release: January 26, 2016

ISBN: 0306823470

ISBN 13: 9780306823473

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