Richard Blodgett
Writer, Editor, Corporate Historian
I have written 16 books — 12 corporate and family histories and four trade books. They include:
Our Family Tree: The Towers Watson Story (CorporateHistory.net, 2012)
The history of professional-services company Tower Watson and its predecessor firms.
The Graybar Story (Greenwich Publishing Group, 2009)
The history of electrical-products distributor Graybar Electric, one of the largest employee-owned companies in the world.
The Gottesman Family (Bellemore Books, 2005)
The history of the Gottesman family (major New York philanthropists) and their company, Central National-Gottesman Inc., a leading wholesaler of paper.
A Sense of Higher Design: The Kohlers of Kohler (Greenwich Publishing Group, 2003)
The story of plumbing-products manufacturer Kohler Co., the Kohler family and the Village of Kohler, Wisconsin.
Doing It My Way, co-authored with Winton M. Blount (Greenwich Publishing Group, 1996)
The autobiography of Winton “Red” Blount, CEO of construction firm Blount International and U.S. Postmaster General in 1969-1972.
The New York Stock Exchange: The First 200 Years (Greenwich Publishing Group, 1992)
The history of the NYSE. I also wrote a revised and updated edition, The New York Stock Exchange: Another Century, published in 1999.
Photographs: A Collector’s Guide (Ballantine Books, 1979)
Selection of the Popular Photography Book Club and the Macmillan Book Club.
