Black Titan A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire

Name: Black Titan A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
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ISBN: 9780345453488

ISBN-10: 0345453484

ISBN-13: 9780345453488

Edition: 2004

Authors: Carol Jenkins, Elizabeth Gardner Hines

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The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and influence bore comparison to J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. Here, for the first time, is the story of the life of this extraordinary pioneer, told by his niece and grandniece, the award-winning television journalist Carol Jenkins and her daughter Elizabeth Gardner Hines. Born at a time when the bitter legacy of slavery and Reconstruction still poisoned the lives of black Americans, Gaston was…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.18" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.594