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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface xi
1. Yeoman Farmer Home from the War 3
2. Beginning Anew in 1865: The Early Phase of W. Duke, Sons and Company 11
3. James B. Duke, The Bonsack Cigarette Machine, and the Origins of the American Tobacco Company 26
4. Building a Commercial Empire: The American Tobacco Company, 1890-1904 56
5. "Durham in on the way to heaven rejoicing": Early Philanthropy of the Dukes 82
6. "Trinity College is the best institution of learning in the South": The Philanthropic Pattern Takes Shape 97
7. New Myths for Old: The Dukes and the Textile Industry of North Carolina 122
8. A Time of Troubles—And Splendor on Fifth Avenue 152
9. Electric Power for the Piedmont Region of the Carolinas 177
10. The Philanthropic Culmination: The Establishment of the Duke Endowment 199
11. The Launching of Duke University and the Deaths of the Duke Brothers 233
A Note on the Sources 261
Appendix. James B. Duke's Indenture Creating the Duke Endowment 268
Index 281
