Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast · Alycia Asai

Titans or Crooks: The Men Who Built Industrial America

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J.P. Morgan created the first billion-dollar corporation while most workers earned under $500 a year.

This episode explores the Gilded Age industrialists like J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, examining their immense wealth, industry dominance, and complex legacies as either captains of industry or robber barons.

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