Alphabetical articles profile the life and work of notable business leaders and entrepreneurs from antiquity to the present , beginning with Ah Quin and ending with Linus Yale.

Includes index.

Preface -- Ah Quin -- Antunano, Estevan de -- Arkwright, Sir Richard -- Armour, Philip Danforth -- Graceland Cemetery -- Astor, John Jacob -- Belmont, August -- Boeing, William E. -- Boyd, Henry Allen -- Brannan, Samuel -- Briones, Juana -- Buffett, Warren Edward -- Butterfield, John -- Carnegie, Andrew -- Carnegie's Libraries -- Casey, James E. -- Church, Robert Reed, Sr. -- Colgate, William -- Colt, Samuel -- Culver, Henry -- De Passe, Suzanne -- Deere, John -- Dow, Herbert Henry -- Du Pont Family -- Eastman, George -- Field, Marshall -- Marshall Field's Chicago store -- Fisk, James -- Forbes, Malcolm Stevenson -- The "Forbes Four Hundred" -- Ford, Henry -- Frick, Henry Clay -- The Frick Collection -- Fugger, Jakob -- Fuller, S. B. -- Gates, William H. (Bill) -- The Codex Leicester -- Geffen, David -- Getty, J. Paul -- Gibbs, Mifflin Wister -- Goldwater, Barry (and family) -- Gordy, Berry, Jr. -- Motown Historical Museum -- Gould, Jay -- Graves, Earl Gilbert, Jr. -- Guggenheim, Daniel -- Haggar, Joseph -- Hall, Joyce Clyde -- Hammer, Armand -- Harriman, Edward Henry -- Harvey, Ford Ferguson -- Hassenfeld, Stephen David -- Hauser, Samuel Thomas -- Hearst, George -- Hearst, William Randolph -- Hearst castle -- Heinz, Henry John II (Jack) -- Hershey, Milton S. -- Hershey, Pennsylvania -- Hill, James J. -- Hollerinth, Herman -- Hughes, Howard -- Hunt, Haroldson Lafayette, Jr. -- Huntington, Collis Potter -- Huntington, Henry Edwards -- The Huntington Library, Art collections, and Botanical Gardens -- Ilfeld, Charles -- Jobs, Steven Paul -- Johnson, John Harold -- Kaiser, Henry J. -- Kellogg, Will Keith -- Knott, Walter -- Kroc, Raymond Albert -- Fast food in America -- Lathrop, Austin E. -- Lay, Herman W. -- Lisa, Manuel -- Llewellyn, James Bruce -- Malone, Annie Turnbo -- Marinho, Roberto -- Marriott, J(ohn) Willard (Bill) -- Mason, Biddy -- Maua, Visconde de -- Maytag, Frederick Louis -- McCormick, Cyrus Hall -- Mellon, Andrew W. -- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation -- Morgan, John Pierpont -- Pierpont Morgan Library -- Murdock, Rupert -- Overton, Anthony -- Pace, Harry Herbert -- Patino, Simon Iturri -- Patterson, Charles R. -- Peabody, George -- Penney, James Cash -- Richard W. Sears -- Perot, H(enry) Ross -- Pillsbury, Philip Winston -- The Pillsbury Bakeoff -- Pullman, George Mortimer -- The Pullman strike -- Rhodes, Cecil John -- Ripley, Edward Payson -- Rockefeller, John Davison -- Rothschild Family -- Ryan, John Dennis -- Simmons, Jake, Jr. -- Spalding, Albert Goodwill -- Spaulding, Charles Clinton -- Spielberg, Stephen -- Spreckels, Claus -- Stanford, Leland -- Stein, Julian Caesar (Jules) -- Steinway, Henry Englehard -- Stetson, John Batterson -- Cowboy hats -- Strauss, Levi -- The history of blue jeans -- Studebaker, John Mohler -- Sutton, Percy Ellis -- Trump, Donald -- Tupper, Earl Silas -- Turner, Robert Edward (Ted) -- Ted Turner's donation to the United Nations -- Vanderbilt, Cornelius -- George Vanderbilt's Biltmore estate -- Walker, Madam C. J. -- Elizabeth Ardern and Helena Rubinstein -- Walton, Sam -- Ward, Aaron Montgomery -- Mail order catalogues -- Waterhouse, Frank -- Weinberg, Harry G. -- Whitney, John Hay -- Winchester, Oliver Fisher -- Winfrey, Oprah Gail -- The Oprah book club -- Woodruff, Robert Winship -- Woolworth, Frank Winfield -- Wozniak, Stephen G. -- Wright, William -- Wrigley, William, Jr. -- Yale, Linus -- Sources/PhotoCredits -- Suggested Reading -- Glossary -- Index.