Sublime

The Triangular Trade, a euphemism for the Atlantic Slave Trade, is actually misleading. This trade was not three-sided: from West Africa with humans, to the Americas to sell humans for goods, to British ports to sell those goods. In fact, is was quadrilateral:

Conner and Moseley were retired in 1938, so Ike directed his quest for a new assignment to old friends who were in positions to help.

conclude it was essential to wrestle with the existential question, Who am I as a Black man in a society that resents my very being? At

I have described how he had been out of General Motors for a number of years and was about to return at that time as president. I found Mr. Durant a very persuasive man, soft-spoken and ingratiating. He was short, conservatively and immaculately dressed, and had an air of being permanently calm — though he was continuously involved in big and compl

I write in longhand with a ballpoint pen on yellow legal pads. As with FDR, Mrs. Frye reads what I have written, transfers it to typescript, and presents me with clean copy every morning. She has typed at least a dozen drafts of every chapter, and does so faultlessly and without complaint. I have been privileged to work with her.

Sloan turned GM into more than just a model for the car industry. His reorganization of the company ensured that day-to-day decisions were devolved to the managers of each division, but financial oversight was centralized, with each division reporting its results, and being allocated resources, in a standardized way. Just as Henry Ford had defined

AT&T’s savior was Theodore Vail, who became its president in 1907, just a few years after Millikan’s friend Frank Jewett joined the company.11 In appearance, Vail seemed almost a caricature of a Gilded Age executive: Rotund and jowly, with a white walrus mustache, round spectacles, and a sweep of silver hair, he carried forth a magisterial conf

Instead, he turned to one of America’s rising corporate rogues, and a once-indicted felon, Thomas J. Watson. With a reputation for ruthlessly crushing rivals and stealing their business, Watson became CEO of CTR in 1924, and he changed the company’s name to IBM, short for International Business Machines.

What fragmented individualism really meant was what happened to a black man who tried to make it in this society: in order to succeed, he had to become an imitation white man - dress white, talk white, think white, express the values of middle-class white culture (at least when he was in the presence of white men). Implied in all this was the hidin