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In the Kingdom of Coal: An American Family and the Rock That Changed the World (New York: Routledge, 2003).
Narrative history of the U.S. coal industry, seen through the eyes of five generations of a family of coal operators, and
four generations of a family of miners who worked for them. 343 pages.
The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania
Press, 2001. Paperback edition, 2006). Biography of the 19th-Century financier who founded J.P. Morgan & Co. and Drexel University
and mentored St. Katharine Drexel. 280 pages.
The Inheritor's Handbook: A Definitive Guide for Beneficiaries (Princeton, N.J.: Bloomberg Press, 1998.
Paperback edition: New York: Fireside Division of Simon & Schuster, 2000). The first book on estate planning for those on
the receiving end. 237 pages.
Middletown Jews: The Tenuous Survival of An American Jewish Community (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University
Press, 1997. Paperback edition: 1998.). Oral histoies of the Jews of Muncie, Indiana, who survived bigotry and the Ku Klux
Klan in the first half of the 20th Century. 180 pages.
Revolution On Wall Street: The Rise and Decline of the New York Stock Exchange (New York: Norton, 1993,
with Marshall E. Blume and Jeremy J. Siegel). A critical narrative history of the investment industry since World War II.
320 pages.
Main Line WASP: One Man's Journey Through the 20th Century (New York: Norton, 1990, with W. Thacher Longstreth).
Memoirs of a Philadelphia civic leader who survived the Great Depression and World War II, sold ads for Life Magazine
and twice ran for mayor. 310 pages.
Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen: An Informal History, 1903-1988 (Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1988).
History of a Philadelphia law firm that evolved from a firm of Jewish outsiders to the ultimate poliitcal insiders. 110 pages.
Fight On, Pennsylvania: A Century of Red and Blue Football (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania, 1985). Illustrated
history of football at the University of Pennsylvania since 1876. 144 pages.
Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy (New York: Random House, 1977. Paperback: Baltimore:
Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985 and 1995). The groundbreaking original guide to tracing Jewish ancestors. 415 pages.
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