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    VICTORY MAKERS

    Nov 27, 2018 4 minutes
    Interview conducted by Senior Editor Sarah Richardson

    MOSBY, CUSTER, AND LEE have been the focus of some of Jeffry Wert’s previous nine books, but in his latest volume he leaves the front lines to take a larger look at the conflict: men who created businesses that helped the Union to victory. (Da Capo Press) profiles 19 businessmen and inventors, including Cyrus McCormick, who made his name selling a plow that so revolutionized grain harvesting that men could afford to leave their fields to join the Union Army. Several other figures created brands that last to this day: timberman Frederick Weyerhaeuser, inventor John Deere, canned-milk innovator Gail Borden, pharmaceutical giant Edward Squibb, and shoemaking

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