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The professional: A biography of J. B. Saunders
Written by Otto J. Scott, published by Atheneum in 1976. A great read by a great author. It is men like this that made this country great.
497 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1976
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Otto Scott
16 books8 followersOtto Scott was a journalist and author of corporate histories who also wrote biographies on notable figures such as the abolitionist John Brown, James I of England and Robespierre.
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March 10, 2017RJ Rushdoony commented on this book during his Easy Chair lecture in December 1982:
"In October Dorothy, my wife, went with me to Colorado Springs to a meeting and had the privilege of meeting someone that she had known of previously and read about, J. D. Saunders. Now J. D. Saunders was a man born in 1901 and his life story is a very important one, both in terms of industrial history, the free market and the development of the oil industry. There is an excellent book, a biography of J. D. Saunders by one of our Chalcedon men, Otto Scott. The title is The Professional...
Now, Dorothy had read this book before, but she was so delighted with Saunders that she went back and started to reread the book with a great deal more pleasure than the first time and it is a delightful book, both because she had now met the man and she could understand his significance all the more having met him personally and having had the flavor of his personality.
Well, the book is, as I say, excellent in that it is the best history of the United States from 1900 to the present that you could get, I think, and the story of a very remarkable man."
"In October Dorothy, my wife, went with me to Colorado Springs to a meeting and had the privilege of meeting someone that she had known of previously and read about, J. D. Saunders. Now J. D. Saunders was a man born in 1901 and his life story is a very important one, both in terms of industrial history, the free market and the development of the oil industry. There is an excellent book, a biography of J. D. Saunders by one of our Chalcedon men, Otto Scott. The title is The Professional...
Now, Dorothy had read this book before, but she was so delighted with Saunders that she went back and started to reread the book with a great deal more pleasure than the first time and it is a delightful book, both because she had now met the man and she could understand his significance all the more having met him personally and having had the flavor of his personality.
Well, the book is, as I say, excellent in that it is the best history of the United States from 1900 to the present that you could get, I think, and the story of a very remarkable man."
November 8, 2012
This is a great book about the energy development in the United States. As the US started building more cars then the need for petroleum grew. As new methods of using fuel developed, then new supplies for those uses were needed, and new supply lines needed to be laid.
The book does a good job paralleling the developments around the world with each year of energy development in the US. The book stops in the 1970s. If you are not interested in energy production in the US then skip the book, but if you are curious how it all started and got developed then the book is a good read.
The book does a good job paralleling the developments around the world with each year of energy development in the US. The book stops in the 1970s. If you are not interested in energy production in the US then skip the book, but if you are curious how it all started and got developed then the book is a good read.
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