My Review 4/5

First. This is not not a biography of the four tycoons as much as it is a trawling history from the end of the Civil War through the early 1900s.

However there are many lessons in the boom/bust cycle of frothy investing that are playing out again today with technology firms.

A great read that goes several manager structures deeper than just the figureheads and how that impacted the everyday man. Just be prepared for chapters of context that are skim-able.

Date Read

2018/10/12

Date Added

2018/09/26

Goodreads book information

The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy by Charles R. Morris

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23222748

Bookshelves: business, history

Author’s Note

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Charles R. Morris, The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy, Blackstone Audiobooks 2014 (Audio CD)1

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  • Apr 22nd, 2024 Converted to jekyll markdown format and copied to personal site
  • Oct 12th, 2018 Originally published on goodreads

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  1. ISBN: =”1481516329” ↩