Pierre S. Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation

This meticulously researched biography of Pierre S. du Pont, head of the Du Pont Company and later General Motors, describes how the Delaware scion took a loosely run, family gunpowder factory and turned it into a giant corporation. Moreover, by astute business management he transformed a faltering General Motors into one of the world's most profitable enterprises. Chandler and Salsbury, who had access to business and personal records rarely available to historians, made the most of them. It is truly one of the finest business histories ever written. Book jacket.

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. received an A.B. in 1940 and a Ph.D. in 1952 from Harvard University. He has taught at MIT and Johns Hopkins University, and since 1970 at the Harvard Business School. He became Professor Emeritus in 1989 Stephen Salsbury was an Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware He later became Chairman of the History Department at the University of Sidney, Australia. He is now deceased