Copies of "Tycoons" ready for history book group

Copies of the book The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy" are now available for check-out at the front desk of the Decorah Public Library.  The library's history book group will discuss the book at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 22nd, at the library.

The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gould, and Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet.  The ruthlessly competitive Carnegie, the imperial Rockefeller, and the provocateur Gould were obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. They were balanced by Morgan, the gentleman businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American business. "The Tycoons" tells how these four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation that could not have been imagined only a few decades earlier.