Chapter 8 :
Railroad barons
First consolidation : the New York Central
The Vanderbilt dynasty
Jay Gould : “Mephistopheles of Wall Street”
The Transcontinental railroad
Harriman and Hill : giants of the West
Other railroad barons
Chapter 9 :
Merchant princes
A.T.Stewart and the first large department store in New York
The Wanamakers of Philadelphia
Marshall Field in Chicago
Woolworth’s five and ten cent empire
Sears and Montgomery Ward - inventing mail order merchandising
Jewish merchant dynasties in America
Chapter 10 :
Bankers
II - banking dynasties of the Gilded Age
Jay Cooke
The House of Morgan
Jewish banking dynasties in America
Succession at the City Bank
Baker and the First National
The Mellons of Pittsburgh
Chapter 11 :
Building the industrial trusts
John
Davison Rockefeller and his associates in Standard Oil
The Dukes
of American Tobacco
The Havemeyers and American Sugar Refining
The Guggenheims in metals and mining
Other industrial trusts and their founders
Chapter 12 :
Utility Tycoons
The Western Union Telegraph
Company
Bell and the Telephone Trust
The Street Railway
Syndicate
Public Lighting, gas works and electricity
