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Creative Capital
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Creative Capital

by Spencer E. Ante
April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
299 pages
9h 28m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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THREE

COMING TO AMERICA

(1921–1925)

ON JANUARY 4, 1921, when Georges Frederic Doriot stepped aboard the S.S. Touraine of the French Line, one of the grand old European steamships, he left France with two important items. In one pocket, he kept a letter of introduction to a gentleman named A. Lawrence Lowell, which had been given to him by a friend of his father who was an expert in technical education in France. In his other pocket, Georges carried a small French coin, a symbol of his father’s fortune, which had been destroyed by the war. The letter, which would radically change the course of Georges’s life, represented the bright light of the future; the coin embodied the dark weight of Doriot’s recent past.

One of things that profoundly affected ...

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