Charles Corm: An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese "Young Phoenician"

283 Pages·2015·1.699 MB·English

by  Franck Salameh

Charles Corm
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TitlesintheSeries
CharlesCorm:AnIntellectualBiographyofaTwentieth-CenturyLebanese“Young
Phoenician,”FranckSalameh
Charles Corm
An Intellectual Biography of
a Twentieth-Century Lebanese
“Young Phoenician”
Franck Salameh
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Coverimage:CharlesCormattheageof17,duringhisfirstvisittoNewYork(ca.1912).
ThisistheadolescentCharlesCormwhoconvincedHenryFordthathewasthe“right
man”tobetheexclusiveagentofFordMotorproductsintheLevant.CharlesCorm’s
ArchivesandPrivatePapers,Beirut,Lebanon.
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Salameh,Franck,1962-
CharlesCorm:anintellectualbiographyofatwentieth-centuryLebanese"youngPhoenician"/
FranckSalameh.
pagescm.
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
ISBN978-0-7391-8400-4(cloth:alk.paper)--ISBN978-0-7391-8401-1(electronic)
1.Corm,Charles,1894-1963.2.Authors,Lebanese--20thcentury--Biography.3.Authors,French--
20thcentury--Biography.4.Intellectuals--Lebanon--Biography.5.Philanthropists--Lebanon--Biog-
raphy.6.Businesspeople--Lebanon--Biography.I.Title.
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TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican
NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary
Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992.
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