"This is the first serious biography of the exuberant man   who transformed the Sears, Roebuck company into the country's most   important retailer. He was also one of the early 20th century's notable   philanthropists. . . . The richness of primary evidence continually   delights." --Judith Sealander, author of Private Wealth and Public   Life    "[No] mere philanthropist [but a] subtle, stinging critic of our racial   democracy." --W. E. B. DuBois on Julius Rosenwald    In this richly revealing biography of a major, but little-known,   American businessman and philanthropist, Peter Ascoli brings to life a   portrait of Julius Rosenwald, the man and his work. The son of   first-generation German Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald, known to his   friends as "JR," apprenticed for his uncles, who were major clothing   manufacturers in New York City. It would be as a men's clothing salesperson   that JR would make his fateful encounter with Sears, Roebuck and Company,   which he eventually fashioned into the greatest mail order firm in the   world. He also founded Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. And in the   American South Rosenwald helped support the building of the more than 5,300   schools that bore his name. Yet the charitable fund he created during World   War I went out of existence in 1948 at his expressed wish. Ascoli provides   a fascinating account of Rosenwald's meteoric rise in American business,   but he also portrays a man devoted to family and with a desire to help his   community that led to a lifelong devotion to philanthropy. He tells about   Rosenwald's important philanthropic activities, especially those connected   with the Rosenwald schools and Booker T. Washington, and later through the   Rosenwald Fund.    Ascoli's account of Rosenwald is an inspiring story of hard work and   success, and of giving back to the nation in which he prospered.

Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck And Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies)

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