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America’s wealth and economic power was built upon its superabundant natural resources including oil, minerals, lumber and rolling prairies. But the nation’s greatness rested on the brilliant exploitation of these resources by driving entrepreneurs, whose “can-do” spirit filtered down to their workforce.
The names Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Morgan are only the best-known of a relatively small group of often ruthless businessmen who built huge industrial empires. Depending on your point of view, they were either brilliant Captains of Industry or remorseless Robber Barons, who steam-rolled legislators and labor while they amassed massive fortunes.
For good or bad, and on balance, it has to be seen as for the good, these men unleashed the industrial genius of their country....
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