Play­mak­ers: The Jew­ish Entre­pre­neurs Who Cre­at­ed the Toy Indus­try in America by Michael Kim­mel

The untold story of the first-generation Jewish American toymakers who literally manufactured “the century of the child.” In 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear―bound by clothing scraps, stuffed with sawdust, and...