George Horace Lorimer (1867–1937)
Autore di Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: By published by L C Page and company Boston 1903 - little pilgrimages, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11940068
Serie
Opere di George Horace Lorimer
Thoughts Worthwhile 1 copia
Opere correlate
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1867-10-06
- Data di morte
- 1937-10-22
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA - Istruzione
- Moseley High School, Chicago, USA
Colby College
Yale University - Attività lavorative
- meatpacker
newspaper reporter
editor (Saturday Evening Post)
editor (Ladies' Home Journal)
author - Organizzazioni
- Saturday Evening Post (editor)
Ladies' Home Journal (editor)
Curtis Publishing Company (president)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 250
- Popolarità
- #91,401
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 52
- Lingue
- 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.… (altro)