Prominent Dutch American Entrepreneurs

The book presents the stories of the more successful Dutch American entrepreneurs active in theUnited States with some going back as far as 400 years. The majority of the entrepreneurscovered in the book were active during the past 150 years. Each of the individuals coveredrepresent an enterprise that was well known during its respective era. In some of the cases theindividuals were better known than the enterprises they represented and some became historicfigures.Some of the more famous Dutch American entrepreneurs are Cornelius Vanderbilt and his sonWilliam Vanderbilt transportation entrepreneurs in the nineteenth century. Also famous duringthe early nineteenth century was DeWitt Clinton the driving force behind the building of the ErieCanal. During the twentieth century there were such famous Dutch American entrepreneurs as Cecil B. DeMille Darryl Zanuck andothers in the entertainment industry. The most successful entrepreneurs still alive today are the billionaire businessmen the Kochbrothers who own the multibillion dollar Koch Industries an oil and chemical industry firm.The book's audience consists of academics the public and specifically the Dutch American public numbering from 6 to 10 millionpeople. The book is also an important source book and reader for college courses in Entrepreneurship American History CultureSociety and Economy.