Product Description

The modem American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Camegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet. Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings the men and their times to life. The ruthlessly competitive Camegie, the imperial Rockefeller, and the provocateur Gould were obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. They were balanced by Morgan, the gentleman businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American business. Through their antagonism and their verve, they built an industrial behemoth - and a country of middle-class consumers. "The Tycoons" tells the incredible story of how these four determined men wrenched the economy into the modem age, inventing a nation of full economic participation that could not have been imagined only a few decades earlier.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27955 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
"Makes a reader feel like a time traveller plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary." The Christian Science Monitor"

About the Author
Charles R. Morris is a lawyer and former banker, and was most recently president of a financial services software company. A regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, he has also written for The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic Monthly.

Customer Reviews

The Unwitting Sculptors Of The American Super Industrial Model
They created their industrial and financial bases for a variety of reasons, the overriding being personal greed and to quench an insatiable thirst for personal power. 'For the good of humanity' whilst never a deliberate intention was, nevertheless, an accidental by-product of The Tycoons nefarious wheeling and dealing in pursuit of wealth and dominance.

Charles Morris tells the comprehensive but not unnecesarily over-detailed account of The Tycoons sometimes individual and sometimes overlapping commercial machinations. The result is a highly readable and interesting account of a pivotal period in the evolution of The American Supereconomy.

When their unethical practices were at last outlawed by the State, there at least remained a framework upon which, with good governance and improving management techniques, others were able to make The United States of America into the World's greatest trading nation. For that The Tycoons are owed a debt of gratitude if not affection.