The Age of Big Business A CHRONICLE OF THE CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY
By:Burton Jesse Hendrick Published By:Double9 Books
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"The Age of Big Business," by Burton Jesse Hendricks, is an in-depth examination of the United States' revolutionary epoch of industrial expansion. Some stories are violent and strange, while others creep up on you and slowly suck you in. Readers are compelled to keep reading because the title character is so self-indulgent. The literary work dives into the genesis of corporate behemoths, the development of industries, and the tremendous societal changes caused by the growth of big business. Burton Jesse Hendrick, a trained historian and biographer, meticulously follows the paths of significant individuals and institutions who shaped this age. Through entertaining anecdotes, he demonstrates the entrepreneurial spirit that drove titans like John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan to alter industries and accumulate vast fortunes.
Burton Jesse Hendrick (December 8, 1870 – March 23, 1949) was an American author born in New Haven, Connecticut. Hendrick was the editor of both The Yale Courant and The Yale Literary Magazine while attending Yale University. He graduated from Yale with a BA in 1895 and a master's degree in 1897. Hendrick became the editor of the New Haven Morning News after finishing his degree. Hendrick quit newspapers in 1905, after writing for The New York Evening Post and The New York Sun, to become a "muckraker" for McClure's Magazine. In 1906, his exposé "The Story of Life-Insurance" published in McClure's. Following his tenure at McClure's, Hendrick became an associate editor at Walter Hines Page's World's Work magazine in 1913. Hendrick began writing biographies in 1919, when he ghostwrote Ambassador Morgenthau's Story for Henry Morgenthau, Sr. The Victory at Sea, which he co-authored with William Sowden Sims, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1921, The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1923, and The Training of an American won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1929.
