Dupont: Behind the Nylon Curtain

by Gerald Colby

History of the Rise and Power of the Dupont Family

Genres: History

622 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

Reviews

[Roslyn Ross · Rating 5 out of 5]

Manners books written for kids are generally quite terrible, as they give the kids 100 ideas on how to be rude and then tell them not to be. This book is like that but for businessmen. It's a scathing biography that follows an astute business family for a century and a half, critiquing their every move as possibly immoral but in the mean time, teaching the reader how business is really done. Every businessman should read this.

This book is no easy read. I loathed the annoying socialist writer, Zilg, so much that I had to read this book in small doses. But in the end, I appreciated him. If he had been a capitalist, he wouldn't have tried so hard to criticize this fascinating family, and biographies that are nothing but the good stuff are useless.

I wish there had been personal info about the family of course, but Zilg couldn't get that. All he could do was follow the money – and that was enough to make this book one of the most fun things I have read lately. I had no idea it was a suppressed book until my husband, who is up on that kind of thing, got super excited that I was reading it. They have done a great job of suppressing this book considering that this is the first review of it on Goodreads!

Highly recommended.

[Anandh Sundar · Rating 4 out of 5]

DuPont family has been very media shy hence this book is a good example of piercing that veil and explaining the outsized influence on Delaware

[Andrew Dascola · Rating 4 out of 5]

….no new addition featuring the going ons of John E (FOXcatcher…you know, the movie with Channing Tatum drenched in baby oil!) DuPont!