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• eatonphil · Jul 5, 2023 · Recommends

  …Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War And then you can learn a lot by reading about the people who built the industries too. Here are a few I've been reading about recently that I recommend: - Edison by Edmund Morris (Just read it backwards, you'll see.) - Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow - The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts - Walt…

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• HamptonFounders · Jul 10, 2023 · Recommends

  …-Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard -White -The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War by William Manchester -Edison by Edmund Morris -Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow -The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts -Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination…

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• eatonphil · Jul 26, 2023 · Mentions

  Yep, that's where I stumbled onto this. The Victorian Internet was fun but way too short. A few chapters in David Nasaw's Andrew Carnegie and Edmund Morris's Edison go into telegraph history a bit. I got into the subject after reading both those books (they both got their start as telegraph operators), and noticing the similarity in meritocracy and culture between…

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