The Lives and Times of Peter Cooper (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Miriam Gurko
- First Published: 1959
- Time of Work: 1791–1883
- Setting: Peekskill, Catskill, Hudson, Newburgh, Brooklyn, and New York City, New York; Baltimore, Maryland; and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Peter Cooper, Edward Cooper, John Cooper, Thomas Cooper, Sarah Bedell Cooper, Abram Hewitt, Joseph Curtin, William Marcy (“Boss”) Tweed
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Education or educators, Working class, Millionaires, Biography, Inventions or inventors, Industry, Philanthropy or philanthropists
- Locales: New York, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, MD
Form and Content
In her gracefully written, well-researched, and informative study for young readers, Miriam Gurko would have close attention paid to the plural nouns in the title The Lives and Times of Peter Cooper. The varied activities of Cooper, who was ninety-two when he died, ranged from shop apprenticeships to the successive partnerships or ownerships of a dozen types of business to the founding of major enterprises. These accomplishments were always combined with dedication to his family’s affairs, to philanthropies, to his passion for invention, and later in...
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