Bücher von Nannie M. Tilley

In this corporate history of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Nannie M. Tilley recounts the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds and the vast R. J. Reynolds tobacco complex with precision and drama. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company includes absorbing accounts of the company's steady technological progress, its labour problems and advances, and its influential role in North Carolina.

This study is concerned with the cultivation, marketing, and manufacture of Bright Tobacco--technically called flue-cured tobacco--in the Virginia-Carolina area and its subsequent expansion into Georgia. The author discusses many aspects of the industry and in conclusion surveys the effects of the introduction of greater capital into the Virginia-Carolina area.