Age of Big Business

When Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1877, America's first great industrial combination had become an established fact. In that year the Standard Oil Company of Ohio controlled at least ninety per cent of the business of refining and marketing petroleum. A new portent had appeared in our economic life, a phenomenon that was destined to affect not only the social and business existence of the every-day American but even his political and legal institutions.Hendrick, Burton Jesse is the author of 'Age of Big Business', published 2004 under ISBN 9781419151743 and ISBN 1419151746.