God and Dun & Bradstreet, 1841–1851

Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Business History Review, 1966, vol. 40, issue 4, 432-450

Abstract: The curious fusion of business failure and evangelical Christianity that initiated the United States' largest credit-reporting agency is explored in this portrait of The Mercantile Agency's founder, Lewis Tappan.

Date: 1966
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