The Men Who Built America

If you ask the average person to name some of the men who built America, you will probably get a lot of answers straight out of whatever political figure they can remember from high school history classes, meaning everybody from George Washington to Bill Clinton. This fascinating series from the History Channel takes a different approach and looks at the men who literally built this country, and made millions – even billions – doing it.  So instead of a president or social leader, we get profiles of guys like Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie, profiles that show us how money and power are what really made this country what it is today, and what it will be tomorrow. The shows are a mix of cold hard facts and dramatic interpretations that takes a bit of getting used to at first, but the cast they’ve lined up too play these titans of industry is formidable, particularly Eric Rolland as J.P. Morgan and Tim Getman as J. D. Rockefeller.