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Pierre S. Du Pont and the making of the modern corporation. Chandler, Alfred D. (1969). Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise. du Pont, B.G. (1920). E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company: A History 1802–1902. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Grams, Martin.
The Titans That Built America is a six-hour, three-part miniseries docudrama which was originally broadcast on the History Channel on May 31, 2021. [1] The series focuses on the lives of Pierre S. du Pont, Walter Chrysler, JP Morgan Jr., William Boeing, Henry Kaiser, Charles Lindbergh, William S. Knudsen, John Raskob, Edsel Ford, and Henry Ford. [2]
Pierre Samuel du Pont (/ d uː ˈ p ɒ n t /; January 15, 1870 – April 4, 1954) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist and member of the prominent du Pont family. He was president of DuPont from 1915 to 1919, and was on its board of directors until 1940.
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There, du Pont purchased 58 acres (230,000 m 2) of land on the St. Johns River and built a 25-room mansion and landscaped grounds, as well as a berth for the couple's motor yacht. Ball du Pont named the estate Epping Forest, after the Virginia plantation of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother and Ball du Pont's relative. [6]
Team Foxcatcher is a 2016 documentary film directed by Jon Greenhalgh telling the story of billionaire John du Pont's involvement in the shaping of the US Olympic Wrestling Team by building expensive training facilities on his home property, called 'Foxcatcher'.