The Men Who Built America Episode Analysis

This episode in the men who built america spoke mainly of some of the richest people in the world's history Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, and Ford all americans and all in the same relative time period. It covers what each of these remarkable individuals did that affected america from ford's assembly line to the buying of the presidency. But it did not just cover what effects their actions had on america it covered their motivations and what may have inspired them to be so successful. All of them had a overly healthy helping of greed and rivalry, but were not motivated by these alone, and towards the end of most of their lives perhaps were motivated by more philanthropic emotions. The episode makes clear that, whatever their motivations, America