If one man says it does not mean a negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man? I thought this would be more of a straight biography, but there was so much financial stuff in here that I was totally lost. "— The Christian Science Monitor The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. That is their argument, and this argument of the Judge [Douglas] is the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it. His speeches emphasize again and again the exceptionalism of America, where the broad populace enjoyed the social and economic underpinnings of political freedom.
Lincoln would have been gratified at the thought, though not surprised. .
The final chapter on the ludicrous pseudoTwo pretty solid books mashed messily into a single volume. . Charles R. Morris Slavery’s apologists often spoke of the need for a social “mudsill”—“a class to do the mean duties, to perform the drudgeries of life,” as a South Carolinian put it. Regardless it was chock full of interesting concepts and rather esoteric economic history. It did include stories of Rockefeller, Gould, Carnegie, and Morgan but also included a modern analysis of foreign and domestic circumstances which helped these men and others (Singer, Ward, Sears et al.) In New York, the tensions were ethnic. The Greek Tycoon (10 Book Series) von Kay Brody.
The world was changing and that change was going to come regardless of who was in charge. Charles R. Morris Recent scholarship suggests that he donated all the cars except the Lincoln car. You can view Barnes & Noble’s Privacy Policy Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. .
He covers a lot of ground, and yet provides a great deal of applicable detail. He either needed to explain stuff better or refocus the book. .
`The Tycoons' is a look at the life of four American giants of industry and the effect they have had on the American economy. Exaggerations, arrogance, downright lies, deceit etc.