1. Prelude -- 2. "... glorious Yankee Doodle" -- 3. Bandit capitalism -- 4. Wrenchings -- 5. Mega-machine -- 6. The first mass consumer society -- 7. Paper tigers ...

These 10 entrepreneurs' names will live on long into the future—perhaps even after their enterprises are gone.

The Tycoons opens with the death of President Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of the nation's recovery from the Civil War. The book's four protagonists—steel pioneer Andrew Carnegie, oil magnate ...

A little over a century ago, in 1916, legendary robber baron John D. Rockefeller became the world’s first billionaire — probably. Before the age of computerized records and the internet, measuring the ...