Much of what is taken for granted in the nonprofit world today was still coalescing a century ago. The great industrialists of the post-Civil War era, including John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie ...
Early entrepreneurs who built business empires include John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Thomas Edison founded General Electric (GE), while Henry Ford ...
1. Prelude -- 2. "... glorious Yankee Doodle" -- 3. Bandit capitalism -- 4. Wrenchings -- 5. Mega-machine -- 6. The first mass consumer society -- 7. Paper tigers ...