CHAPTER TWO
A Precocious Dropout Forges His First Empire
In the end, William Crapo Durant was perhaps not only the most forgotten but the most enigmatic of the twentieth century’s great entrepreneurs and innovators. He was:
The son of an alcoholic father who abandoned his family
Raised by a socialite divorcee in an era when single mothers were shunned
A high school dropout
A devoted son but distant father
The romantic suitor of a teenage ...
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