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The men who built America. Episode 7, Taking the White House
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"The Men Who Built America" profiles the men whose outsized drive, ambition, and business savvy constructed a bold vision for a modern America and transformed the greatest industries of our time: o...
"The Men Who Built America" profiles the men whose outsized drive, ambition, and business savvy constructed a bold vision for a modern America and transformed the greatest industries of our time: oil, rail, steel, shipping, automobiles, and finance. Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan have gone unmonitored for decades, but American politicians are about to change that.
Details
- Creator
- directed by Patrick Reams ; created for History by Stephen David Entertainment and Brainstorm Digital
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, NY : A&E Television Networks, 2012
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (44 minutes)
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn994129849
- Credits
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- Narrated by Campbell Scott
- Title from resource description page (viewed June 21, 2017).
- In English.
Subjects
- Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography.
- Industrialists -- United States -- Biography.
- Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
- Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1843-1899.
- Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937.
- Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
- Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943.