Gunderson (business, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut) offers a reprint of the text originally published as The Wealth Creators: An Entrepreneurial History of the United States (1989; E.P. Dutton, New York), in which he examines the emergence and role of the innovative entrepreneur in the growth of America from the colonial period to modern times. The reprint includes a new "author's note" at the end of the table of contents; no other changes have been made to the original text. Academic but accessible to the general reader interested in business and history. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
