It was at the head of the parade of corporate giants that created railroads, bridges, automobiles, highways, skyscrapers, and far-flung telephone and electrical generation and transmission systems. This book tells how U.S. Steel helped invent and build the modern world and how it grew up with that world, dealing with the forces that reshaped it again and again. More, it is a book about people - from titans in U.S. Steel's highest offices, to the steelworkers who tamed flames and molten metal to produce the steel, to the power brokers and politicos who dealt with, and sometimes clashed with, The Corporation . Marching through these pages are the likes of Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, Mark Twain, Judge Elbert Gary, John L. Lewis, Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Jack and Bobby Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Finally this is a story told straight from the hip.
Bad news appears with the good.
Wrinkles and ragged edges have been preserved. Somehow, that makes U.S. Steel's story even more compelling.