The Good Provider; H. J. Heinz and his 57 Varieties
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 297, [5] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Frontis illustration. Notes and Sources. Bibliography. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Robert C. Alberts was a journalist and former advertising executive. Robert C. Alberts was a Contributing Editor of American Heritage and wrote several books. Alberts was primarily interested in 18th-century American history. His essay on a daring colonist who played a role in the British capture of Quebec during the French and Indian War was enlarged into a book, The Most Extraordinary Adventures of Major Robert Stobo (1965). His other books included The Golden Voyage: The Life and Times of William Bingham, 1752-1804 (1970), the story of a wealthy Philadelphia merchant who played a prominent role in the Revolutionary War and The Good Provider: H. J. Heinz and His 57 Varieties (1973), about the founder of the company that bears his name. Other books include Benjamin West: A Biography (1978), a highly regarded portrait of the first American painter to gain international recognition, and The Shaping of the Point: Pittsburgh’s Renaissance Park. One of the most amiable, amusing, and powerful figures of America's middle years, H. J. Heinz was among those prodigiously energetic, freewheeling tycoons who in scarcely more than a generation made the United States an industrialized nation. Throughout the half century 1869-1919 he was a dominant force in developments that revolutionized American agriculture, food processing, and eating habits. Henry John Heinz (October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919) was an American entrepreneur who founded the H. J. Heinz Company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was born in Birmingham, Pennsylvania, the son of German immigrants who came independently to the United States in the early 1840s. Heinz developed his business into a national company which made more than 60 food products; one of its first was tomato ketchup. He was influential for introducing high sanitary standards for food manufacturing. He also exercised a paternal relationship with his workers, providing health benefits, recreation facilities, and cultural amenities. Heinz was the great-grandfather of former U.S. Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and, as part of the extended family of the Trumps, a second cousin of Frederick Trump and second cousin twice removed of President Donald Trump. Derived from a Kirkus review: As Captains of Industry go, Mr. Heinz was a nice man. With a nice wife, Sally, and nice children and a pickle and ketchup and horseradish business that grew and prospered into a vast factory complex on the Allegheny where Harry Heinz provided his workers with a restaurant and rest rooms and a roof garden and a concert hall and even a swimming pool. Unlike the other "Lords of Pittsburgh" -- Carnegie, Frick, Mellon and Westinghouse -- "the Pickle King"" with his reddish muttonchop whiskers, benevolent paternalism and work ethic made few enemies and many friends; he even supported the enactment of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. Indeed Alberts appreciates all his virtues and good works including the six-storey neon pickle Heinz put up on Fifth Avenue and the reading room and bronze statues and porcelain vases featured in the Heinz Ocean Pier at Atlantic City. Presumably to get the flavor of the man he quotes from his diary. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Henry Heinz, H. J. Heinz, Industrialists, von Dapper-Saalfels, Pickle, Sebastian Mueller, Food and Drug Act, Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Theodore Roosevelt, Lillian Weizmann, Harvey Wiley
ISBN: 0395171261
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Price: $50.00