{"product_id":"9780253112040","title":"Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is the first serious biography of the exuberant man who\u003cbr\u003e transformed the Sears, Roebuck company into the country's most important retailer.\u003cbr\u003e He was also one of the early 20th century's notable philanthropists.... The richness\u003cbr\u003e of primary evidence continually delights.\" -- Judith Sealander, author of\u003cbr\u003e Private Wealth and Public Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[No] mere philanthropist [but\u003cbr\u003e a] subtle, stinging critic of our racial democracy.\" -- W. E. B. DuBois on\u003cbr\u003e Julius Rosenwald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this richly revealing biography of a major,\u003cbr\u003e but little-known, American businessman and philanthropist, Peter Ascoli brings to\u003cbr\u003e life a portrait of Julius Rosenwald, the man and his work. The son of\u003cbr\u003e first-generation German Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald, known to his friends as\u003cbr\u003e \"JR,\" apprenticed for his uncles, who were major clothing manufacturers in\u003cbr\u003e New York City. It would be as a men's clothing salesperson that JR would make his\u003cbr\u003e fateful encounter with Sears, Roebuck and Company, which he eventually fashioned\u003cbr\u003e into the greatest mail order firm in the world. He also founded Chicago's Museum of\u003cbr\u003e Science and Industry. And in the American South Rosenwald helped support the\u003cbr\u003e building of the more than 5,300 schools that bore his name. Yet the charitable fund\u003cbr\u003e he created during World War I went out of existence in 1948 at his expressed wish.\u003cbr\u003e Ascoli provides a fascinating account of Rosenwald's meteoric rise in American\u003cbr\u003e business, but he also portrays a man devoted to family and with a desire to help his\u003cbr\u003e community that led to a lifelong devotion to philanthropy. He tells about\u003cbr\u003e Rosenwald's important philanthropic activities, especially those connected with the\u003cbr\u003e Rosenwald schools and Booker T. Washington, and later through the Rosenwald\u003cbr\u003e Fund.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAscoli's account of Rosenwald is an inspiring story of hard\u003cbr\u003e work and success, and of giving back to the nation in which he prospered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067965030640,"sku":"9780253112040","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253112040_p0.jpg?v=1763680862","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253112040","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}