The Age of Big Business – Burton Jesse Hendrick

In The Age of Business, Burton Hendricks looks at the industrial story of the United States over the last fifty years and the amazing economic transformation the world has ever seen. To understand the period, Burton Hendricks looks at Cornelius Vanderbilt who, in his estimation, thinks that Cornelius Vanderbilt personifies the period. He also discusses the spread of the telephone, the steel industry, public utilities, agricultural machinery, and the automobile industry. Burton Hendricks won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for the biography for Life and Letters of Walter H. Page as well as a few other books. His credentials speak for themselves.