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Jenkins of Mexico : how a Southern farm boy became a Mexican magnate /

"In the city of Puebla there lived an American who made himself into the richest man in Mexico. Driven by a steely desire to prove himself--first to his wife's family, then to Mexican elites--William O. Jenkins rose from humble origins in Tennessee to build a business empire in a country e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Paxman, Andrew, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Coming of age in Tennessee
  • Fortune-seeking in Mexico
  • How to get rich in a revolution
  • Kidnapped, jailed, vilified
  • Empire at Atencingo
  • Resistance at Atencingo
  • With Maximino
  • Mining the Golden Age of Mexican cinema
  • Enterprise, profiteering, and the death of the Golden Age
  • The Jenkins foundation and the battle for the soul of the PRI
  • Jenkins' earthly afterlife
  • Epilogue: the mixed legacy of William O. Jenkins.