Pierre S. Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation by: Alfred Dupont Chandler /Stephen Salsbury
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 722 pages, b&w illustrations. Ex-lib with residue and stamping to front endpapers, otherwise a clean, bright copy. One of the finest business histories ever written by an author who won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes for History. A detailed account of how Pierre S. du Pont transformed a family gunpowder factory into the Du Pont Company and revitalized General Motors into a highly prosperous corporation.