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Gus Wortham
Fran Dressman
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Description for Gus Wortham
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: B; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Gus S. Wortham was a good businessman. Among other enterprises, he started a highly successful insurance company, American General, and helped to shape the economic institutions of Houston. Gus Wortham was a civic leader, who worked actively in the Chamber of Commerce to influence the city's economic climate and who left the city a legacy of cultural institutions, including the Wortham Theater Center. Gus Wortham was a rancher and land developer. Land: "they aren't making any more of it," he liked to say. So he bought it, developed it, and built a business with it. In short, ... Read more
Gus S. Wortham was a good businessman. Among other enterprises, he started a highly successful insurance company, American General, and helped to shape the economic institutions of Houston. Gus Wortham was a civic leader, who worked actively in the Chamber of Commerce to influence the city's economic climate and who left the city a legacy of cultural institutions, including the Wortham Theater Center. Gus Wortham was a rancher and land developer. Land: "they aren't making any more of it," he liked to say. So he bought it, developed it, and built a business with it. In short, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781623491543
SKU
V9781623491543
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About Fran Dressman
Fran Dressman, formerly a research associate in the University of Houston's Department of Public History, is now manager of Constituent Communications, University of Houston, USA.
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