Showing posts with label business history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business history. Show all posts
Friday, July 5, 2024

A review of PBS’s “The Circus” (American Experience)

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PBS did a four-hour television history of the circus (and they weren’t clowning around) … In 2017,  Hollywood  released a movie that reminde...
Monday, April 29, 2024

A review of PBS’s “Citizen Hearst” (American Experience)

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An anecdote about the movie “Citizen Kane” (made by Orson Welles in 1941) In 1941, Orson Welles released a film called “Citizen Kane,” whi...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

A review of PBS’s “Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People”

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The “Pulitzer Prize” was named after the great newspaper editor Joseph Pulitzer … In 1917, six years after the death of Joseph Pulitzer, the...
Monday, September 28, 2020

A review of Sun Tzu's “The Art of War”

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“If you know the enemy and know yourself , you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for ...
Friday, July 10, 2020

A review of Ken Burns’ “Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio” (PBS)

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Sometimes these three men were friends … At other times, they were cutthroat business rivals The filmmaker  Ken Burns  became famous whe...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

A review of PBS's “Edison: The Father of Invention” (American Experience)

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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” – Thomas Alva Edison The great “geek” questions: “Edison or ...
Thursday, December 5, 2019

A review of PBS's “Walt Disney” movie

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“We're not trying to entertain the critics … I'll take my chances with the public.” – Walter Elias Disney It's not often t...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

A review of PBS's “Silicon Valley” (American Experience)

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This documentary focuses on a historical company called “Fairchild Semiconductor” … I was expecting this movie to be about Bill Gates a...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

A review of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” (PBS)

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“♪ Katie Casey was baseball mad, Had the fever and had it bad. Just to root for the home town crew, Ev'ry sou Katie blew. ♪ ♪ On...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

A review of “The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance” (PBS Empires)

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“To the Magnificent Lorenzo Di Piero De' Medici : Those who strive to obtain the good graces of a prince are accustomed to come befo...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

A review of PBS's “Henry Ford” movie

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"A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don...
Friday, July 8, 2016

A review of “The Men Who Built America” (History Channel)

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"The Men Who Built America" is something of a rarity in the world of documentaries , because it is one of the few history progra...
Monday, May 18, 2015

A review of “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression”

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We've all heard stories about how bad things were during the Great Depression , with extensive poverty and massive unemployment - perh...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

A review of PBS's “Transcontinental Railroad” movie

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"[The Congress shall have the power] To establish post-offices and post-roads ..." - The United States Constitution, Article 1, S...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Adam Smith and the Pin Factory

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"The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which...