#226 Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle

America prepared the way for the cult of the entrepreneur. In due course, the public applauded the outstanding steelmaker Andrew Carnegie. And the oil man John D. Rockefeller. This new kind of hero was controversial. And it is a fact.

That throughout history One person's hero has been another's villain. Not only in his own day. But later. The heroes of America's emergence as the world's largest industrial power were clearly genuine in one sense.

Since Carnegie's cheap, high quality steel benefited everybody. Rockefeller's slashing of the price of kerosene by ninety percent. Was a godsend. And for its cheap. reliable model T

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