I find that I still see these personality types, tactics and strategies being used today in larger and small companies. Peritz, Rudolph J. R. "The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890." The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier.
AcaDemon —
He gives the punch line first, then tells how this happened. The title of the book should be different because Morris writes about more than just the 19th century tycoon. Times Books/ Henry Holt & Company. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy Charles R. Morris, Author Times Books … I was expecting to read about the four tycoons that built America. He describes the conditions in steel towns, and the continual wage cutting, but doesn’t waste tears over them. With the Robber Barons on the cover, you'd think it was to be entirely about them.
Enjoyed this economic history book of the industrial revolution in America post civil war. 2008.
Morris, Charles R. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy.
Great concept, terribly written. My conception of JP Morgan changed for the better and my view of Carnegie, and Gould changed for the worst, though my knowledge of them all was very limited. I had to force myself to finish this book. 18 Nov. 2008.. Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2016. By Charles R. Morris. Once they were officially a couple, her feelings for him turned into a “toppling blast of lust, gratitude, fulfillment, wonder.” But for someone with a “natural resistance to chaos,” being the wife of an ambitious politician was no small feat, and becoming a mother along the way added another layer of complexity. In fact, Morgan didn't actually like innovators, because they sparked unsettling competition. on Aug 15, 2010
This was an excellent book. With little to lose, they were willing to bet on a roll of the dice, even if it was they who occasionally got rolled. My only complaint was the author tended to over explore areas related to the business, such as labor unions and beginning of the middle class. In the 19th century, the United States was still young. Gould, Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan, those legendary robber barons, weren’t so bad after all, says financial writer Morris (Money, Greed, and Risk, 1999, etc.). Learn more about the program. This book is a highly mixed bag. BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Most of these men operated within or just over gray lines of the law at the time while some just stepped right over lega. After all, it takes a special kind of moxie to survive being the first African-American FLOTUS—and not only survive, but thrive. Book Review. There’s more info on Youtube than in the book. And when he does, Morris admits he wasn't much of an innovator. . Then we got into anti-trust stuff and I was completely lost. become tycoons in their respective industries. (It was later that he saved the country from disaster as “de facto central banker.”) Carnegie, dominating steel, looked the other way during the unpleasantness of the Homestead Strike. Families saw their kerosene costs plummet by 60 percent during the 1880's. Through it all, Obama remained determined to serve with grace and help others through initiatives like the White House garden and her campaign to fight childhood obesity. He might have had the "soul of a bookkeeper," as Tarbell put it, but his green eyeshade created bargains for consumers, who were switching from whale-oil lamps to kerosene. Despite such flip-flops, Morris insists that, by and large, the money these tycoons amassed came from their brains and guts, not from the spilled blood of exploited workers and competitors. This paper explores comparative company law, comparing the United Kingdom (UK) to France. On the balance, I wouldn't recommend, and in finishing it, I realized why I abandoned it the first time I read it. Read 468 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. That is not the case. Great book and great read. In 350 pages or so, Charles R. Morris uses the four tycoons of the title to weave an industrial, business, and economic history of the United States during the 19th Century. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Retrieve credentials. Best appreciated by those who know the difference between debentures and dentures. 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. Gracefully and eloquently clarifies these men's frequently misunderstood roles in the shaping of modern U.S. commerce.” ―The Providence Journal. But Morris, who harbors no grudges, reminds us that Gould, far from looting the railroads he acquired, often poured more money into them. Morris does not simply provide biographical material on the four men, but he places them in the rapidly developing economy of the era. These people really knew what type of business can make them money and how to run them and manipulate the people and the market around it. Later, adjusting to life in the White House was a formidable challenge for the self-described “control freak”—not to mention the difficulty of sparing their daughters the ugly side of politics and preserving their privacy as much as possible.
I find that I still see these personality types, tactics and strategies being used today in larger and small companies. Peritz, Rudolph J. R. "The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890." The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier.
AcaDemon —
He gives the punch line first, then tells how this happened. The title of the book should be different because Morris writes about more than just the 19th century tycoon. Times Books/ Henry Holt & Company. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy Charles R. Morris, Author Times Books … I was expecting to read about the four tycoons that built America. He describes the conditions in steel towns, and the continual wage cutting, but doesn’t waste tears over them. With the Robber Barons on the cover, you'd think it was to be entirely about them.
Enjoyed this economic history book of the industrial revolution in America post civil war. 2008.
Morris, Charles R. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy.
Great concept, terribly written. My conception of JP Morgan changed for the better and my view of Carnegie, and Gould changed for the worst, though my knowledge of them all was very limited. I had to force myself to finish this book. 18 Nov. 2008.. Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2016. By Charles R. Morris. Once they were officially a couple, her feelings for him turned into a “toppling blast of lust, gratitude, fulfillment, wonder.” But for someone with a “natural resistance to chaos,” being the wife of an ambitious politician was no small feat, and becoming a mother along the way added another layer of complexity. In fact, Morgan didn't actually like innovators, because they sparked unsettling competition. on Aug 15, 2010
This was an excellent book. With little to lose, they were willing to bet on a roll of the dice, even if it was they who occasionally got rolled. My only complaint was the author tended to over explore areas related to the business, such as labor unions and beginning of the middle class. In the 19th century, the United States was still young. Gould, Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan, those legendary robber barons, weren’t so bad after all, says financial writer Morris (Money, Greed, and Risk, 1999, etc.). Learn more about the program. This book is a highly mixed bag. BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Most of these men operated within or just over gray lines of the law at the time while some just stepped right over lega. After all, it takes a special kind of moxie to survive being the first African-American FLOTUS—and not only survive, but thrive. Book Review. There’s more info on Youtube than in the book. And when he does, Morris admits he wasn't much of an innovator. . Then we got into anti-trust stuff and I was completely lost. become tycoons in their respective industries. (It was later that he saved the country from disaster as “de facto central banker.”) Carnegie, dominating steel, looked the other way during the unpleasantness of the Homestead Strike. Families saw their kerosene costs plummet by 60 percent during the 1880's. Through it all, Obama remained determined to serve with grace and help others through initiatives like the White House garden and her campaign to fight childhood obesity. He might have had the "soul of a bookkeeper," as Tarbell put it, but his green eyeshade created bargains for consumers, who were switching from whale-oil lamps to kerosene. Despite such flip-flops, Morris insists that, by and large, the money these tycoons amassed came from their brains and guts, not from the spilled blood of exploited workers and competitors. This paper explores comparative company law, comparing the United Kingdom (UK) to France. On the balance, I wouldn't recommend, and in finishing it, I realized why I abandoned it the first time I read it. Read 468 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. That is not the case. Great book and great read. In 350 pages or so, Charles R. Morris uses the four tycoons of the title to weave an industrial, business, and economic history of the United States during the 19th Century. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Retrieve credentials. Best appreciated by those who know the difference between debentures and dentures. 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. Gracefully and eloquently clarifies these men's frequently misunderstood roles in the shaping of modern U.S. commerce.” ―The Providence Journal. But Morris, who harbors no grudges, reminds us that Gould, far from looting the railroads he acquired, often poured more money into them. Morris does not simply provide biographical material on the four men, but he places them in the rapidly developing economy of the era. These people really knew what type of business can make them money and how to run them and manipulate the people and the market around it. Later, adjusting to life in the White House was a formidable challenge for the self-described “control freak”—not to mention the difficulty of sparing their daughters the ugly side of politics and preserving their privacy as much as possible.
I find that I still see these personality types, tactics and strategies being used today in larger and small companies. Peritz, Rudolph J. R. "The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890." The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier.
AcaDemon —
He gives the punch line first, then tells how this happened. The title of the book should be different because Morris writes about more than just the 19th century tycoon. Times Books/ Henry Holt & Company. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy Charles R. Morris, Author Times Books … I was expecting to read about the four tycoons that built America. He describes the conditions in steel towns, and the continual wage cutting, but doesn’t waste tears over them. With the Robber Barons on the cover, you'd think it was to be entirely about them.
Enjoyed this economic history book of the industrial revolution in America post civil war. 2008.
Morris, Charles R. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy.
Great concept, terribly written. My conception of JP Morgan changed for the better and my view of Carnegie, and Gould changed for the worst, though my knowledge of them all was very limited. I had to force myself to finish this book. 18 Nov. 2008.. Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2016. By Charles R. Morris. Once they were officially a couple, her feelings for him turned into a “toppling blast of lust, gratitude, fulfillment, wonder.” But for someone with a “natural resistance to chaos,” being the wife of an ambitious politician was no small feat, and becoming a mother along the way added another layer of complexity. In fact, Morgan didn't actually like innovators, because they sparked unsettling competition. on Aug 15, 2010
This was an excellent book. With little to lose, they were willing to bet on a roll of the dice, even if it was they who occasionally got rolled. My only complaint was the author tended to over explore areas related to the business, such as labor unions and beginning of the middle class. In the 19th century, the United States was still young. Gould, Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan, those legendary robber barons, weren’t so bad after all, says financial writer Morris (Money, Greed, and Risk, 1999, etc.). Learn more about the program. This book is a highly mixed bag. BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Most of these men operated within or just over gray lines of the law at the time while some just stepped right over lega. After all, it takes a special kind of moxie to survive being the first African-American FLOTUS—and not only survive, but thrive. Book Review. There’s more info on Youtube than in the book. And when he does, Morris admits he wasn't much of an innovator. . Then we got into anti-trust stuff and I was completely lost. become tycoons in their respective industries. (It was later that he saved the country from disaster as “de facto central banker.”) Carnegie, dominating steel, looked the other way during the unpleasantness of the Homestead Strike. Families saw their kerosene costs plummet by 60 percent during the 1880's. Through it all, Obama remained determined to serve with grace and help others through initiatives like the White House garden and her campaign to fight childhood obesity. He might have had the "soul of a bookkeeper," as Tarbell put it, but his green eyeshade created bargains for consumers, who were switching from whale-oil lamps to kerosene. Despite such flip-flops, Morris insists that, by and large, the money these tycoons amassed came from their brains and guts, not from the spilled blood of exploited workers and competitors. This paper explores comparative company law, comparing the United Kingdom (UK) to France. On the balance, I wouldn't recommend, and in finishing it, I realized why I abandoned it the first time I read it. Read 468 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. That is not the case. Great book and great read. In 350 pages or so, Charles R. Morris uses the four tycoons of the title to weave an industrial, business, and economic history of the United States during the 19th Century. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Retrieve credentials. Best appreciated by those who know the difference between debentures and dentures. 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. Gracefully and eloquently clarifies these men's frequently misunderstood roles in the shaping of modern U.S. commerce.” ―The Providence Journal. But Morris, who harbors no grudges, reminds us that Gould, far from looting the railroads he acquired, often poured more money into them. Morris does not simply provide biographical material on the four men, but he places them in the rapidly developing economy of the era. These people really knew what type of business can make them money and how to run them and manipulate the people and the market around it. Later, adjusting to life in the White House was a formidable challenge for the self-described “control freak”—not to mention the difficulty of sparing their daughters the ugly side of politics and preserving their privacy as much as possible.
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