Derricks of Destiny 2016 Edition
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As a tribute to a legendary Irish-American businessman and philanthropist of the early 20th century, the 2016 Edition of Derricks of Destiny, celebrates one of the most remarkable eye-witness accounts of life in America, when the fledgling oil and banking industries wore younger clothes. Already a skilful writer of world renowned books, Samuel Bayne then turned his pen to sketching an anecdotal history of events as he remembered them, from a truly incredible career in the days of the wildcat oil booms in a United States that was less well developed than she is today. Not satisfied to live the life of a highly successful oil tycoon and oil-well supplies magnate, Our Man Bayne had the pioneering energy and ambition to then turn his hand to banking and finance. And what flair, skill and understated charisma comes through his autobiographical account of how he became one of the worlds wealthiest men. As part of Irelands 2016 remembrances, the 2016 Edition of his all but forgotten autobiography has been re-edited and re-written in parts, as a tribute to a man who turned his business skills to the advantage of Ireland in 1879, when we were again in the grip of genocidal starvation and famine. For Sam Bayne, his religious principles formed the core humanitarian strength with which he reached out across the artificial boundaries of tradition, to lend a helping hand. The banking legend he became in his own life-time, spoke to the community service he regarded as central to the mission of banking and finance. The network of feeder banks he set up in the growing communities of neo-metropolitan America, helped to unlock the early promise of a Nation that was to emerge as the worlds most powerful economy. In his world travels, he gives us a lasting snap-shot of what a Western traveler would have encountered in Japan, China, India, Russia and Europe, as the world sat on the brink of our first major war. Close with your right, open with your left, and
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