The Men Who Built America
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October 16, 2012
1 season, 4 episodes
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Overview
Influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen. The Men Who Built America is the story of a nation at the crossroads and of the people who catapulted it to prosperity.
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Tim Getman
John D. Rockefeller
Michael Chmiel
William VanderbiltD
David Donahoe
Cornelius VanderbiltR
Ray Reynolds
J.P. Morgan (The Elder)E
Eric Rolland
J.P Morgan (The Younger)A
Adam Jonas Segaller
Andrew Carnegie (The Elder)
AJ Achinger
Andrew Carnegie (The Younger)
Alex Falberg
Nikola TeslaC
Cary Donaldson
Henry Ford
Einar Gunn
George WestinghouseJ
James Kidd
William Jennings BryanK
Kenneth Cavett
Jim FiskC
Cameron McNary
Jay GouldJ
Joseph Wiegand
Theodore Roosevelt
Justin Morck
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