The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Revolutionized the American Economy

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United States on Oct 18, 2023

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United States on Sep 24, 2023

S Anton: A good look into A justified Criminal organisation

Australia on Jul 30, 2021

Adrián Sánchez Rodríguez: Great Insights about those who built the world!!!

Spain on Dec 19, 2020

Very DisSatisfied User: Nice read

Singapore on Sep 03, 2020

Mister X: Schön geschriebene und interessante Lektüre über einige sehr erfolgreiche Personen aus vergangenen Tagen. Dabei geht es vor allem um deren Weg und Grundsätze.
Das Englisch ist auch für Leute, die kein Muttersprachniveau haben gut zu verstehen.

Germany on Jun 03, 2020

Lindsay Upsher: Well written, informative book. It's a heavy read but incredibly interesting and inspiring.

Canada on Aug 06, 2019

Chad Duffey: Charles Morris’s The Tycoons gives a good account of how the 19th century tycoon came into power. Charles Morris has a different view of the entrepreneur Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan, and gives supporting facts about each entrepreneur’s character.
The opening is a bit surprising because Morris does not mention the four characters that are in the subtitle. The book starts with the United States surpasses Britain in the world economy by mechanization and automation. The story of the tycoons begins in chapter three and does not have any connection to the first two chapters. Some chapters stray away from the four tycoons, but are still very interesting. The title of the book should be different because Morris writes about more than just the 19th century tycoon. This is not an easy read, and some of the analogies are out of place and do not make any sense. Overall Morris’s The Tycoons gives interesting history of how the United States because a world economic super power.

United States on Nov 18, 2015

Roderick S. Haynes: Superior scholarship went into the writing of this book. Too often the Reconstruction Era is reduced to the social evils visited upon the ex-slaves in a post-war South. Reconstruction includes the plight of blacks in the South, but also the rise of capitalism, industrialization, urbanization, organized labor, and the ingenuity of American inventors which hastened the country's progress into the Gilded Age. We cannot ignore the conquering of the West / final solution for Native Americans, and the solidification of the power of the central / Federal government ( both legislative and executive branches) over state governments. It can be argued that in the Jim Crow South States rights primacy lingered on into the 20th century, however the story of this book is the story of steel, oil, banking, and railroad industries all converging into making America very much feared by foreign competitors in Europe. Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gould, and JP Morgan were ruthless tycoons, yes, and the average worker and small business person concerns were often crushed by their monopolistic practices, including blatant market and currency manipulations. The passage of Interstate Commerce legislation and...

United States on Jan 27, 2014

J. Grattan: This book is a glimpse into the extraordinary transformation and growth of the American economy that started during the Civil War but accelerated tremendously over the next forty years. The Civil War was a time of westward expansion under the Homestead Act, neo-Whig infrastructure development, especially railroads, and the rise of corporations to supply wartime needs. Those trends continuing after the War, the author's four tycoons are representative of men who saw the opportunities and advantages in dominating such core industries as railroads, iron and steel production, and oil extraction and refining, all undertaken in a favorable environment that erected barriers against foreign competition but with few domestic regulations. It should be noted that the book is far more an examination of the logic for developing large enterprises than it is biographical.

A legitimate question that the author addresses is what was the basis of this astonishing economic surge? The short answer is immense natural resources, necessity, and ingenuity, in addition to an advantageous legal setting. The ever expanding population virtually required that huge enterprises come into existence that...

United States on Oct 26, 2010