Episode 97

The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie

“Andrew Carnegie, 1835 – 1919.” American Experience. PBS. Accessed at: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eads-andrew-carnegie-1835-1919/.

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Bostaph, Samuel. Andrew Carnegie: An Economic Biography. New York: Lexington Books, 2015.

Carnegie, Andrew. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie. London: Constable & Co. Limited, 1920. Accessed at: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17976/17976-h/17976-h.htm

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Challies, Tim. “The Philanthropists: John D. Rockefeller.” October  13, 2013. Accessed at: https://www.challies.com/articles/the-philanthropists-john-d-rockefeller/.

Chernow, Ron. Grant. New York: Penguin Books, 2018.

Chernow, Ron. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. New York: Vintage Books, 2004.

Evening Star. Washington D.C. September 13, 1875. Accessed at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1837LROzuZDKFDFm9K5DOVa0gbi5fvo2hzx3HypAMkmA/edit.

Flynn, John T. Gold’s Gold: The Story of Rockefeller and His Times. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932. Accessed at: https://cdn.mises.org/Gods%20Gold%20The%20Story%20of%20Rockefeller%20and%20His%20Times_2.pdf.

Foner, Philip S. The Great Labor Uprising if 1877. New York: Pathfinder, 1977.

Gartner, John D. The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.

Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, The Complete Annotated Edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 2017

“Grant’s Funeral March.” American Experience. PBS. Accessed at: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grant-funeral/

Hawke, David Freeman. John D. The Founding Father of the Rockefellers. New York: Harper and Row, 1980.

Hildegarde, Dolson. The Great Oildorado; the Gaudy and Turbulent Years of the First Oil Rush: Pennsylvania, 1859 – 1880. New York: Random House, 1959. Accessed at: https://archive.org/details/greatoildorado00dols/page/138/mode/2up.

Jonnes, Jill. Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World. New York: Random House, 2003.

Krass, Peter. Carnegie. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.

Manufacture of Steel by Bessemer Process. TutorVista. YouTube. Accessed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kSp5K70cYc.

McCullough, David. The Johnstown Flood. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.

Morris, Charles R. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2005.

Nasaw, David. Andrew Carnegie. New York: Penguin Books, 2007.

Rockefeller, John D. Random Reminiscences of Men and Events. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. Accessed at: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17090/17090-h/17090-h.htm#CHAPTER_II

Roker, Al. Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster. New York: William Morrow, 2018.

Segall, Grant. John D. Rockefeller: Anointed with Oil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 

Standiford, Les. Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005.

“Statistics about the Great Disaster.” Facts about the 1889 Flood. Johnstown Flood Museum. Accessed at: https://www.jaha.org/attractions/johnstown-flood-museum/flood-history/facts-about-the-1889-flood/.

Stowell, David O., editor. The Great Strikes of 1877. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

“The Dam was Owned by the South Fork Fishing & Hunting Club.” The Club and the Dam. Johnstown Flood Museum. Accessed at: https://www.jaha.org/attractions/johnstown-flood-museum/flood-history/the-club-and-the-dam/. 

“The Hero Laid to Rest. Gen. Grant Buried with Military Honors at Riverside. North and South United. Ex-Confederate Generals Lock Arms with Union Generals at the Tomb.” The Sun. New York, New York. August 9, 1885. Accessed at: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1885-08-09/ed-1/?sp=1&q=ulysses+s+grant+funeral&r=0.253,-0.034,0.427,0.336,0.

The Men Who Built America, season 1, episode 3. “Changing the Game.” History. October 20, 2012. 

“Thomas Alexander Scott.” Notable Residents of the Woodlands. The Woodlands. Accessed at: woodlandsphila.org/notables.

“Timeline: Rags to Riches.” American Experience. PBS. Accessed at: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carnegie-timeline-rags-to-riches. 

Waugh, Joan. U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

White, Ronald C. American Ulysses. New York: Random House, 2016.