This Day in Business History: Great Corporate Tales, Commercial Milestones, Colorful Titans, Captivating Quotes, and Calamitous Blunders for Every Day of the Year

The perfect gift for every desktop—a day-by-day compendium of fun facts, business trivia, and money-making milestones throughout history

In the bestselling tradition of Schott’s Original Miscellany, this handsomely bound collection of business quips, quotables, and quandaries makes an ideal office gift for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs. Each daily entry features a fun and fascinating glimpse behind history’s greatest financial triumphs—and failures—from the art-loving Medicis to the Microsoft-selling Bill Gates.

Raymond L. Francis, Ph.D., is a historian of commerce, science, and technology who has taught at colleges and universities around the world and is the author of the critically acclaimed Illustrated Almanac of Science, Technology, and Invention.