The King Of Sunlight - How William Lever Cleaned Up The World

Informationen zum Autor Adam Macqueen has at various points in his career cleaned toilets, packed mail-order baldness cures, led canoeing holidays for teenage drug addicts, toured Europe in the worst production of Richard II in history and been one of those people answering the phones in the background during Watchdog, before settling on journalism as a profession. He has written for a number of newspapers and magazines, edited the Big Issue , and currently works for Private Eye . He is currently working as a freelance feature writer and appears regularly on Sky television. Klappentext William Hesketh Lever - soap-boiler, social reformer, MP, tribal chieftain, multi-millionaire and Lord of the Western Isles - was one of the most extraordinary men ever to leave his mark on Britain. This book traces Lever's footsteps from his humble Bolton boyhood to a business empire that straddled the world. Zusammenfassung William Hesketh Lever - soap-boiler, social reformer, MP, tribal chieftain, multi-millionaire and Lord of the Western Isles - was one of the most extraordinary men ever to leave his mark on Britain. This book traces Lever's footsteps from his humble Bolton boyhood to a business empire that straddled the world.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Macqueen, Macqueen Adam
• Publisher: Corgi
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2011
• EAN: 9780552163910
• ISBN: 978-0-552-16391-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political and military