本书展示了形形色色的美国商界,揭开美国商界,揭开美国国商界名人传奇般的发家史。激动人心的创业故事遍布各行各业，到高新技术产业，从文化品味很高的明信片制造业，到渗透全球的饮料行业，以及口碑欠佳的传销业，等等。本书作为观望美国大众文化的一个窗口，自然当之无愧。此外，该书还列举了一些在当代美国英语中颇具生命力但却鲜见于国内教材的新词汇。

1.BILL GATES

 信息时代的骄子比尔·.盖茨

2.ROSS PEROT

 竞选总统的软件业老手罗思·佩罗

3.TED TURNER

 泰德.特纳-有线新闻网创始人

4.JAY VAN ANDEL

 杰伊·凡·安德尔-传销大王

5.GEORGE LUCAS

 乔治·卢卡斯-电影特技大师

6.GORDON PETER GETTY

 前头号石油富翁之子戈登·盖蒂

7.DAVID ROCKEFELLER SR.

 石油帝国的后裔老戴维·洛克菲勒

8.RALPH LAUREN

 沃尔夫·劳伦-杰出的服装设计师

9.DONALD TRUMP

 唐纳德·特拉普-房地产怪杰

10.DONALD JOYCE HALL

 唐纳德·乔伊斯·赫尔-美国最大的明信片制造商

"When I was 19, I caught sight of the future and based my career on what I saw. I turned out to have been right."-Bill Gates.

 He's the most famous businessman in the world. He's also the richest man in the world-

worth an estimated $40 billion in 1997 according to Forbes magazine. Without a doubt, Bill Gates is one of the most important minds of our era-the Thomas Edison of our time. He has dominated the revolution in personal computing and is a self-described "hard-core technoid," and a "workaholic."

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