More than all the wealth in the world: John Winthrop and the Puritans -- Not for self, but for others: James Oglethorpe's Georgia -- Virtuoso : Benjamin Franklin, public citizen -- The beauties of factory life: Women at work in the textile mills of Massachusetts -- In the direction of dreams : Emerson and Thoreau versus the market -- Look away, look away: slavery on the cotton plantations of Georgia -- Why millionaires should not be shot: Andrew Carnegie and the beginnings of modern philanthropy -- A share of the profits: Henry Ford's five-dollar day -- More Grace, sweetness, and time: The Tennessee Agrarians' case against big business and big finance -- We'll do it!: World War II and the shipyards of Henry J. Kaiser -- Man in the middle: Whitney Young Jr., the National Urban League, and civil rights -- A great compulsion to go North: William C. Norris, entrepreneur and social inventor -- The God box: The shareholder activism of the interfaith center on corporate responsibility.
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