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The Men Who Built America – Episode 2 Recap
History Channel’s The Men Who Built America ; episode 2 – began at Tom Scott’s funeral. The focus is on that of revenge, class struggle and profits; specifically those of Andrew Carnegie’s through, what would become, his steel empire. Tom Scott and his Pennsylvania Railroad line had been integral to expanding John D. Rockefeller’s Standard […]
Episode 1 Recap – The Men Who Built America
The episode begins at the end of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln has been shot and the future of the United States looks no less grim than during the time of the confederacy. The world looked at the experiment in American Democracy as a failure, but the narrator adds, “for the first time in American […]
The Men Who Built America- Currency on Screen
“I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.” — Vanderbilt, quoted in the New York Daily Tribune, March 23, 1878 Upon my second viewing of The Men that Built America, I noticed the paper-money on the poker table as Cornelius Vanderbilt, surrounded by men of obvious wealth, puffed a cigar, held a […]
Watch Episode 1 at History.com
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The Men Who Built America (Episode 1): More info on the “Erie War”; Gould, Fisk, Vanderbilt
Did anyone else find the portion of the series about Cornelius Vanderbilt’s thwarted attempt to take of the Erie Line, a bit confusing? The premise is introduced as part of Vanderbilt’s attempt to sieze all of the major railroad companies by way of, what would now be considered, a “hostile takeover.” The imagery of Vanderbilt’s […]
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