Who—With What Ideals—Built Early American Capitalism?

In January 1926, A. W. Shaw published in System: The Magazine of Business this survey. It is an amazing look inside the minds of some of America's greatest industrialists.​

More must be done to develop a deeper, well-rounded understanding of—and admiration for—our country’s early business founders. We need to write of their trials, tribulations and successes. Writing figuratively: We need to etch their images in stone just as we have our early political founders.

​If we do this, maybe our twenty-first century chief executives will once again—like their twentieth-century counterparts, learn to measure success by ideals and not by dollars and cents.

What and Who Advanced American Capitalism in the Early 20th Century?