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ISBN13: 9780985213503 ISBN10: 0985213507 Material Type: hardcover

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Alfred I. du Pont: The Man and His Family Marketing The Dictionary of Cultural LiteracyIf Alfred I. du Pont was born to "the purple and ermine" of an American industrial dynasty, his life was far from peaceful, pampered, indolent. Beginning at the bottom as little more than a teamster and handyman, within fifteen years young du Pont was widely recognized as "the best black powderman in the nation" and the mechanical genius of the du Pont family. In 1902, upon the death of Eugene du Pont, Alfred was brash and confident enough to claim