Table of Contents

• About the author. v
• Contents. vii
• List of illustrations. ix
• Introduction.. 1
• John Jacob Astor. 7
• From Walldorf to New York. 7
• The Fur Trade. 9
• Astoria. 14
• Manhattan Landlord. 21
• Cornelius Vanderbilt.. 29
• New York Harbour. 29
• Gibbons v Ogden. 32
• Uncle Daniel 35
• To The Pacific. 39
• Railroads and Corners. 41
• The Erie Railroad Wars. 47
• Andrew Carnegie.. 61
• The Bobbin Boy. 61
• Telegraphs and Railroads. 66
• The Budding Capitalist 70
• The Civil War and After. 73
• The Panic of 1873. 82
• The Industrialist 88
• The Homestead Strike and its Aftermath. 96
• Carnegie Steel 100
• Skibo Castle and the Gospel of Wealth. 102
• The Departure of Frick. 105
• The Years of Philanthropy. 109
• The Advocate of Peace. 113
• The First World War and After. 115
• John D Rockefeller.. 119
• The Young Rockefeller. 119
• The Oil Regions. 124
• Henry Flagler and the Creation of Standard Oil 128
• The Dissolution of Standard Oil 141
• Rockefeller’s Philanthropies. 144
• Henry Ford. 151
• The Young Mechanic. 151
• The First Cars. 157
• The Ford Motor Company and the Model T. 161
• The Peace Ship and the War. 173
• The Dearborn Independent 181
• Evangeline. 185
• Changes. 186
• The Last Years. 196
• Joseph P Kennedy.. 203
• Early Days in Boston. 203
• Marriage and Money. 207
• Wall Street and the New Deal 212
• Ambassador to the Court of St James. 217
• The War Years. 222
• Politics and Tragedies. 231
• Select Bibliography. 239
• Index. 241

About the Author

Wyn Derbyshire originally trained as a research chemist, gaining a PhD from the University of Cambridge before qualifying as a lawyer. He has for many years been interested in financial history. He is writing a series of biographies of tycoons for Spiramus Press.