George Horace Lorimer (1867–1937)
Autor(a) de Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
About the Author
Image credit: By published by L C Page and company Boston 1903 - little pilgrimages, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11940068
Séries
Obras de George Horace Lorimer
Thoughts Worthwhile 1 exemplar(es)
The Saturday Evening Post August 18, 1906 1 exemplar(es)
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1867-10-06
- Data de falecimento
- 1937-10-22
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA
- Locais de residência
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA - Educação
- Moseley High School, Chicago, USA
Colby College
Yale University - Ocupação
- meatpacker
newspaper reporter
editor (Saturday Evening Post)
editor (Ladies' Home Journal)
author - Organizações
- Saturday Evening Post (editor)
Ladies' Home Journal (editor)
Curtis Publishing Company (president)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 250
- Popularidade
- #91,401
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Resenhas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 52
- Idiomas
- 2
For instance: In the last letter of the book, he is responding to his son's announcement that his wife has had a baby boy. Old Gorgon Graham spends one page (smallish pages, lots of borders and white space with a biggish font) saying how happy he is for himself to be a grandparent. The next sixteen pages admonishing about how to raise the boy to be a sound businessman and what is wrong with the business world of "today" (1900), and why he fears that his heirs will never be as fine a man as he himself is.
I can imagine the groans of his son every time he had to open another letter from his father. I still enjoyed the book enough to finish reading it. There is amusement in the examples given, and some quite sound advice, if anyone ever listens to advice.… (mais)