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This 4-page paper compares and constrasts three important men of the U.S. industrial revolution -- J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt and John D. Rockefeller. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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land, to an industrial one; one in which much of the labor used was in factories to mass-manufacture goods. Some of the men driving this impetus forward were the so-called
"robber barons," the men who made themselves millionaires by cashing into what was going on in industry. These three were John Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Certain experts point out that these three men were the same in many ways. Himick (2004), for example, classifies these three
(and others, such as Andre Carnegie) as "fat cats" who claimed capital, bribed the government, and in Himicks words, "built the entire industrial infrastructure of the post-Civil War United States"
(Himick, 2004). Yet despite their millionaire status and despite the fact they drove the industrial revolution, these three men, in their own
ways, were quite different - in terms of what they did for the industrial revolution, as well as their personalities and handling of business.
J.P. Morgan was more of what Himick considered a "backstage baron," one who ruled Wall Street, and one whom insiders considered "Jupiter," in other words, ruler of the
financial gods (Himick, 2004). According to Himick, Morgan had such power over wealth, if he said someone had money, that person had it (Himick, 2004). Conversely, if that person was
broke - that would happen as well (Himick, 2004). Some biographers considered that Morgan was "a massive man, with a ferocious glare
and a purple, hideously disfigured nose" (Biography of America, 2004). He was also a chain cigar-smoker with all that entails as well (Biography of America, 2004). And, Morgan was born
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