Oral Histories

Price Institute has compiled autobiographies of successful entrepreneurs that offer invaluable insight into the thought processes, personalities and motivations of these gifted individuals.

With grants from Price Institute, the oral history departments of Columbia University and UCLA are recording professionally-conducted interviews with leading entrepreneurs. Completed oral histories are bound and added to the oral history archives at Columbia University, UCLA and Price Institute. They are a rare and important resource for business historians and other interested students. The oral histories will provide new knowledge to enliven innovative academic programs.

UCLA Oral Histories

The transcripts of these interviews are available in the library system at UCLA as a resource for research. Audiotape recordings also may be accessed in the UCLA Dept. of Special Collections by special arrangement.
This is a small sampling of what is available:

George Gregory

The interview begins with Gregory's childhood and education in Riga, Hamburg, Brussels and London, moves to his emigration to the U.S., and ends with his eventual career in Southern California. Major topics covered include the plight of Jews in Nazi Germany, Jewish refugees in World War II, the evolution of the adhesives and sealants branch of the chemical industry, the development of Products Research and Chemical Corporation, relations with the aerospace industry, government contracting and regulation, licensing agreements, research and development of new products, mergers, and the personal relations among the leaders of the company.

James Doolittle

Doolittle discusses his early life and career in Southern California theater, and his experiences in staging opera, ballet and theater productions in the Biltmore, Greek and Huntington Hartford Theatres. This transcript was taken from a thirteen hours of interviews.

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