Six Tycoons
Contents
Introduction
1. JOHN JACOB ASTOR
From Walldorf to New York
The Fur Trade
Astoria
Manhattan Landlord
2. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
New York Harbour
Gibbons v Ogden
Uncle Daniel
To The Pacific
Railroads and Corners
The Erie Railroad Wars
3. ANDREW CARNEGIE
The Bobbin Boy
Telegraphs and Railroads
The Budding Capitalist
The Civil War and After
The Panic of 1873
The Industrialist
The Homestead Strike and its
Aftermath
Carnegie Steel
Skibo Castle and the Gospel of
Wealth
The Departure of Frick
The Years of Philanthropy
The Advocate of Peace
The First World War and After
4. JOHN D ROCKEFELLER
The Young Rockefeller
The Oil Regions
Henry Flagler and the Creation of
Standard Oil
The Dissolution of Standard Oil
Rockefeller’s Philanthropies
5. HENRY FORD
The Young Mechanic
The First Cars
The Ford Motor Company and the Model T
The Peace Ship and the War
The Dearborn Independent
Evangeline
Changes
The Last Years
6. JOSEPH P KENNEDY
Early Days in Boston
Marriage and Money
Wall Street and the New Deal
Ambassador to the Court of St James
The War Years
Politics and Tragedies
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
