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What we think of as the modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, and lived at a moment of riotous growth-and real violence-that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet. They are, quite literally, the founding fathers of our economy-and, thus, of modern America.Acclaimed author and journalist Charles R. Morris vividly brings these four men to life. On one side are Carnegie, the ruthless competitor; Gould, the provocateur in the shadows; and Rockefeller, the visionary who understood how to manage sprawling empires. These three were obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. In steel, railroads, oil, and money markets, they rallied behind a single-minded code: bigger, cheaper, faster. And then there was Morgan, the gentleman businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American business. Through their competition over the last decades of the nineteenth century, they built a powerful nation populated with consumers as well as producers, fostering the growth of the middle class. The tycoons tells the incredible story of how four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation that could not have been imagined only a few decades earlier.
I enjoyed very much reading the BOOK: TYCOONS by CHARLES R. MORRIS, a renowned AMERICAN HISTORIAN & SCHOLAR. Mr. MORRIS is very knowlegeable
about MODERN USA HISTORY & INDUSTRIAL WORLD AFFAIRS. The tycoons were
written in a very comprehensive historical ways. There are already so many books written by many AUTHORS on THE FOUR TYCOONS of AMERICAN HISTORY in MODERN TIME particularly on J.D. ROCKEFELLER &
JP MORGAN, which are indeed the PRIDE of AMERICA. However, Mr. MORRIS
wrote the four tycoons on a more precise & concise ways for the readers to
appreciate the GREAT FREEDOM of ENTERPRISE of USA, which the WORLD would
like to follow, hopefully it will enrich WORLD ECONOMY if we don't over
spent on enjoyments.
The TYCOONS brought the MEN and their times to life!!
CHARLES R. MORRIS is a good story teller of how these four HARD WORKING &
DETERMINED men brought the USA economy to the MODERN TIME, inventing a
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For me this is a wonderful book. It covers one of the fastest developing periods in US, the 30 yrs after the civil war, when US became the world leader in industry.
The book touches a lot of different aspects of the period, from the steel industry, railroads, to the four tycoons, and the beginning of the management science. A very worthy reading.
This is a fascinating book, especially for those outside the US who may, like me, be almost wholly unfamiliar with the period of history covered. Morris is excellent at making detail interesting and compulsive to read. The book weaves the lives four very different men into a coherent story. The way in which these "Robber Barons" presage the emerge of Mr Gates (at Microsoft), Mr Brin and Page (at Google) was a very important message for me. This was something I "knew", but could not support, or articulate clearly. Morris has done the job and I am now keen to read his other books.
William Forbes (Bedford, England)
Alas, I should have listened to my fellow Amazoners.
They tried to warn me that despite the misleading title there wasn't very much in this book about the tycoons themselves. Well, I ignored them and blew the full retail price at a local store. If you want to read in minute detail about how a variety of engineering and manufacturing problems which had plagued industry were finally solved by the great minds of the second half of the 19th century, this book is for you. If you want to read about Gould, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Hill, Stanford, and Morgan, check out Matthew Josephson's classic instead. There's very little about any of the tycoons here.
The editors of this book should have insisted on another, more accurate, title.
As for the book itself, it's a pedestrian-like plod through history. Some books you can't put down after picking them up. This is most definitely not one one of them. I find myself taking taking one or two week breaks in between chapters while I devour other books in two consecutive evenings.
If you want to learn about the background in which the robber barons operated this may be the book for you. Just be forewarned that there's scant little about them between the covers.
This is a great book for looking at the economic history of the United States. It covers mostly the four mentioned in the title but what was really fantastic and what deserves that extra star is that it covers the economic developments on the side. It looks at how our economy outpace Europe and the shift to make America that extra superpower. WE also have a look at how our ability to move west gave us an added advantage and that we did not have to resort to colonies. While we exported much we still made tremendous gains in internal improvements. He also grasp how the development of the coronation as an institution led to the rise of clerical and accounting positions creating hundreds of service jobs. This book is incredibly well written and really holds your interest. It offered the best explanation of Gould's attempt to corner the gold market I have ever read. It is very well researched and makes references to the top economic historians out there. A must read for anyone who wants to understand how the United States developed economically
About The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy detail
- Amazon Sales Rank: #10821 in eBooks
- Published on: 2005-10-07
- Released on: 2005-09-15
- Format: Kindle Book
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