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Giants of American Industry series.
The books in this series cover the lives of individuals who founded vast empires in various fields, including Hearst's groundbreaking newspaper empire and Arden's revolutionary ideas in the beauty industry. The black-and-white photos are too dark and aren't always well reproduced, but the authors don't try to edge around the controversial nature of their subjects. Bib., ind. [Review covers these Giants of American Industry titles: John D. Rockefeller, William Randolph Hearst, John Paul Getty, Elizabeth Arden.]