Post by Burgess Foster, BA, MS, MPA

In the spirit of Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick set in Detroit, circa 1905. A curious twelve-year-old armed with nothing more than a notebook begins studying the greatest merchants of the Industrial Age. Guided by family, faith, Henry Ford, and retail pioneers J.G. MCCRORY and SEBASTIAN SPERING KRESGE, Samuel Cobb transforms from an observant child into the architect of a new philosophy of commerce—proving that the greatest fortunes are built not on products, but on character.