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04988aam a2200589 i 4500 001 2682DC3E6EA311E79084E9F2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170722010050 008 170210s2017 nyuabf b 001 0beng 010 $a 2016042218 020 $a 0190455748 020 $a 9780190455743 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d VP@ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-tn $a n-us-tn 050 00 $a HC132.5.J57 $b P38 2017 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a HIS036060 $a HIS025000 $a HIS036060 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Paxman, Andrew, $d 1967- $e author. 245 10 $a Jenkins of Mexico : $b how a Southern farm boy became a Mexican magnate / $c Andrew Paxman. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a 509 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, map ; $c 25 cm 520 2 $a "In the city of Puebla there lived an American who made himself into the richest man in Mexico. Driven by a steely desire to prove himself--first to his wife's family, then to Mexican elites--William O. Jenkins rose from humble origins in Tennessee to build a business empire in a country energized by industrialization and revolutionary change. In Jenkins of Mexico, Andrew Paxman presents the first biography of this larger-than-life personality. When the decade-long Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910, Jenkins preyed on patrician property owners and bought up substantial real estate. He suffered a scare with a firing squad and then a kidnapping by rebels, an episode that almost triggered a US invasion. After the war he owned textile mills and the country's second-largest bank, developed Mexico's most productive sugar plantation, and helped finance the rise of a major political family, the AÌvila Camachos. During the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s-50s, he lorded over the film industry with his movie theater monopoly and key role in production. Reputed as an exploiter of workers, a puppet-master of politicians, and Mexico's wealthiest industrialist, Jenkins was the gringo that Mexicans loved to loathe. After his wife's death, he embraced philanthropy and willed his entire fortune to a foundation named for her, which co-founded two prestigious universities and funded projects to improve the lives of the poor in his adopted country. Using interviews with Jenkins' descendants, family papers, and archives in Puebla, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Washington, Jenkins of Mexico tells a contradictory tale of entrepreneurship and monopoly, fearless individualism and cozy deals with power-brokers, embrace of US-style capitalism and political anti-Americanism, and Mexico's transformation from semi-feudal society to emerging economic power"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The Black Legend of William O. Jenkins -- Chapter 1: Coming of Age in Tennessee -- Chapter 2: Fortune-Seeking in Mexico -- Chapter 3: How to Get Rich in a Revolution -- Chapter 4: Kidnapped, Jailed, Vilified -- Chapter 5: Empire at Atencingo -- Chapter 6: Resistance at Atencingo -- Chapter 7: With Maximino -- Chapter 8: Mining the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema -- Chapter 9: Enterprise, Profiteering, and the Death of the Golden Age -- Chapter 10: The Jenkins Foundation and the Battle for the Soul of the PRI -- Chapter 11: Jenkins' Earthly Afterlife -- Epilogue: The Mixed Legacy of William O. Jenkins. 600 10 $a Jenkins, William O. $q (William Oscar), $d 1878-1963. 650 0 $a Businessmen $z Mexico $v Biography. 650 0 $a Americans $z Mexico $v Biography. 650 0 $a Philanthropists $z Mexico $v Biography. 651 0 $a Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico) $v Biography. 651 0 $a Mexico $x Economic conditions $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Mexico $v Biography. 651 0 $a Tennessee $v Biography. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $x Historical. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $z Latin America $x Mexico. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $z United States $x 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 600 17 $a Jenkins, William O. $q (William Oscar), $d 1878-1963. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00289420 650 7 $a Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807488 650 7 $a Businessmen. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00842951 650 7 $a Economic history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 $a Philanthropists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01060593 651 7 $a Mexico. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01211700 651 7 $a Mexico $z Puebla de Zaragoza. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01719809 651 7 $a Tennessee. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205353 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 776 08 $i Online version: $a Paxman, Andrew, 1967- $t Jenkins of Mexico. $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017 $z 9780190455750 $w (DLC) 2017006803 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018014529.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20170722010826.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2682DC3E6EA311E79084E9F2DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search