Gus S. Wortham was a good businessman. Among other enterprises, he started a highly successful insurance company, American General, and helped to shape the economic institutions of Houston. Gus Wortham was a civic leader, who worked actively in the Chamber of Commerce to influence the city's economic climate and who left the city a legacy of cultural institutions, including the Wortham Theater Center. Gus Wortham was a rancher and land developer. Land: they aren't making any more of it, he liked to say. So he bought it, ...
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Gus S. Wortham was a good businessman. Among other enterprises, he started a highly successful insurance company, American General, and helped to shape the economic institutions of Houston. Gus Wortham was a civic leader, who worked actively in the Chamber of Commerce to influence the city's economic climate and who left the city a legacy of cultural institutions, including the Wortham Theater Center. Gus Wortham was a rancher and land developer. Land: they aren't making any more of it, he liked to say. So he bought it, developed it, and built a business with it. In short, he became one of the most influential men in the history of Houston. This is the story of his life, his business, his city. Company records and interviews with all Wortham's surviving friends and associates combine to make it a thorough account. Urban and business historians alike will find this book a fascinating study, and those who know, or want to know, Houston will find it an enlightening chronicle.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Small 4to 9"-11" tall; 284 pages; Gold photo cover DJ. Lightly rubbed at spine head and front corner otherwise little wear to note. Mylar cover. Book is solid, clean and tight. Covers slightly cocked otherwise little wear to note. Photos, notes and index.
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Used; Like New. Used; Like New. 28-C-03 Texas A&M University Press 2014 paperback. Stated Second printing. Book Condition; Like New. 2014. TRADE PAPERBACK.
