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New Enhanced Digital Edition Updated 2/10/11Microsoft founder Bill Gates writes: “Genuine pioneers don’t stop after just one discovery or innovation. They are driven to build on their accomplishments and to follow them into new frontiers.” … more

Fourth Edition (Includes IPO, Wedding and post-IPO through December 2012) Mark Zuckerberg, the 28-year-old founder of Facebook, is not only the youngest self-made billionaire in history, he was worth $19.1 billion right after Facebook’s ini… more

New Enhanced Digital EditionHenry Ford, an American folk hero to many, was a man with several faces. He was a genius who revolutionized the automobile industry, irrevocably altered American culture and commerce, developed mass production, a… more

Thomas Nast has been called the greatest political cartoonist of all time. He was much more than that. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant attributed his presidential victory in the 1868 campaign “to the sword of (Indian-fighting Gen. Phil) Sheridan and … more

Biographical profile of Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States, a man whose reputation as one of the world’s greatest humanitarians plummeted with the advent of the Great Depression during his administration. Prior to his… more

Biographical profile of publishing tycoon Walter Annenberg, owner of newspapers, and television and radio stations, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and WFIL in Philadelphia. Annenberg also founded TV Guide and Seventeen magazines. He se… more

As America entered the 20th century, women were still denied many of the rights we now take for granted. They could own property, but did not have the right to vote or have the right of citizenship independent of their husbands. There were … more

NEW SECOND ENHANCED EDITION 2012In writing the Introduction to award-winning author Daniel Alef’s new biographical profile of Burt Rutan, Michael D. Griffin, former Administrator of NASA, said Burt “is one of those who is universally acknow… more

Daniel Drew was a robber baron in every sense of the term. He loved to be hated. He was into money for the game. Making money was great, but making it while stabbing someone in the back was better, and if the victim was his partner, electri… more

Biographical profile of Katharine Graham, who once described herself as a doormat wife, but subsequently became one of the most powerful figures in America during the 20th Century. The New York Times called her a “publishing legend.” Willia… more

Editorial ReviewsFrom Publishers WeeklyCalifornia joined the Union in 1850; just in time for the state’s sesquicentennial comes this big, ambitious and well-researched debut, the first in a planned historical trilogy from Santa Ynez valley … more

Biographical profile of EstéeLauder who combined charm, gall and a ferocious ambition to create one of the great empires in cosmetics and perfumes. Estée was never able to shed her roots in Queens, NY, and perhaps this is what made her such… more

Geary Street in San Francisco is named after John Geary, San Francisco’s first mayor. So are Geary Counties in Pennsylvania and in Kansas where he served as governor. Geary, a giant of a man, standing over 6-foot-6 and weighing 250 pounds, … more

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were staunch opponents of a national bank. When President Jackson let the charter of the second bank lapse after 20 years, it left the nation unprepared and powerless to respond quickly or effectively to … more

California and New York have had their share of titans, moguls and tycoons, but only California can boast of having been the home of an emperor: Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. This improbable story of Joshua… more

Biographical profile of George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Co. and inventor of the Kodak and Brownie cameras that revolutionized photography. In roughly 30 years beginning in 1880, Eastman changed the world of photography. Instead… more

Biographical profile of the Freelan and Francis Stanley, identical twins who developed the Stanley Steamers, cars powered by steam engines. In 1897 the brothers, dressed alike in overcoats, bowler hats and sporting thick black beards appear… more

Biographical profile of Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart. Walton made his fortune by being unconventional. He built huge discount stores in rural areas instead of big cities, and offered the lowest-priced merchandise to customers. By convert… more

On Jan. 2, 1910, leading aviators from around the globe converged on Dominguez Hills near Los Angeles for the Los Angeles Air Meet. During the 10-day event, 226,000 spectators saw a dazzling display of airplanes and flight. Many world recor… more

Controversy about man’s first flight has swirled around the facts like a dust devil. Was Orville and Wilbur Wright’s flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903 the first manned flight of a heavier-than-air powered plane? Until 1942, the Smithsonian Insti… more