By Brian Meehan, Edward Timmons, and Andrew Meehan — November 2, 2017 Click Here to Open the PDF in a New Tab Is the American Dream still alive? Researchers at the Equality of Opportunity Project produced a new data set tracking economic mobility and note...
Her Westchester County neighborhood was the home of Vanderbilts, Morgans, and Astors. Jay Gould and John D. Rockefeller had assembled estates nearby. Sitting high above the Hudson River in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, “Villa Lewaro” had views of the river and the...
It was 1912. The wiry, soft-spoken, short (five-foot five-inch) immigrant with the thick Hungarian accent waited for hours to see the powerful Jeremiah Kennedy, head of the “Edison Trust” (Motion Picture Patents Company). Adolph Zukor, like many American Originals,...