Jenkins of Mexico : how a Southern farm boy became a Mexican magnate / Andrew Paxman.
2017
HC132.5.J57 P38 2017
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Title
Jenkins of Mexico : how a Southern farm boy became a Mexican magnate / Andrew Paxman.
ISBN
9780190651183 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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HC132.5.J57 P38 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.092
Summary
William O. Jenkins (1878-1963) was a Tennessee farm boy who ventured to Mexico in search of fortune and became that country's wealthiest and most infamous industrialist. Dropping out of Vanderbilt, Jenkins eloped with a southern belle and settled in Mexico in 1901. Driven by a desire to prove himself - first to his wife's snobbish family, then to elites who disdained him as an American - Jenkins would spend the next six decades building an enormous fortune in textiles, property, sugar, banking, and film.
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William O. Jenkins (1878-1963) was a Tennessee farm boy who ventured to Mexico in search of fortune and became that country's wealthiest and most infamous industrialist. Dropping out of Vanderbilt, Jenkins eloped with a southern belle and settled in Mexico in 1901. Driven by a desire to prove himself - first to his wife's snobbish family, then to elites who disdained him as an American - Jenkins would spend the next six decades building an enormous fortune in textiles, property, sugar, banking, and film.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 21, 2017).
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Print version: 9780190455743
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