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Sensiful Country is the book The Great Potato Famine in the Making of Irish New York.

George Fox, one of my heroes in the book because

remember they're always climbing the ladder of success towards being business owners and

he certainly climbs quickly to that elevated is a man who

understands not only clothing he understands marketing what do we need to know

about George Fox's success? Would he have been successful anywhere? Was it was it America that gave him the chance?

I think it's a combination of the two. So George Fox comes to New York and he's already trained as a tailor.

And so he goes to work making clothing for New York clothing

retailers, you know, maybe Brooks Brothers or maybe the Devlins who are one of the biggest

clothing retailers and they were Irish who had come before the famine. But he's earning a

pittance of a wage as a sewing clothes for other people and he is

very ambitious and wants to go into business for his own. So he opens up a storefront and starts selling clothes. At first he aims his sales at other poor immigrants, but he realizes there's a lot more money to be made selling a few pieces of clothing to well-to-do New Yorkers at a high markup.

So he closes his initial shop on Chamber Street, opens one on Broadway in a nice corner lot and begins advertising prominently in the city's newspapers.

And he's a great self-promoter.

And that's one of the things that's really important if you want to be a success as an

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