The Age of the Moguls: The Story of the Robber Barons and the Great Tycoons
Categories: Business & Money, History
Stewart H. Holbrook's popular history, written for Doubleday's Mainstream of America series, profiles the American tycoons who built vast fortunes in railroads, steel, oil and finance in the decades after the Civil War. His cast includes Cornelius Vanderbilt, Daniel Drew, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould in the railroad wars, Andrew Carnegie and the steel trust, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Andrew Mellon, Charles Schwab and Henry Ford. This Transaction edition reprints the book first published in 1953.
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- Ryan Holiday: “Recently, in Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell examined that unique patch of history where Carnegie, Rockefeller and Morgan, three of the richest men in the history of the world were all born within half a decade of each other.”