FOR YEARS I HAVE BEEN WORKING on writing the biographies ofAmerica’s greatest capitalists. Amazingly, a large number of these icons lived in a singlePittsburghneighborhood and attended the same church. H. J. Heinz can in many ways be considered the Jupiter of these distinguished industrialists. Heinz’sPittsburghneighborhood included George Westinghouse, Thomas Mellon, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Philander Knox. This single neighborhood, known asEast Liberty, had the world’s highest income per capita in the 1800s. These capitalists were a strange mix of virtue and greed. Some, like George Westinghouse and H. J. Heinz, were saintly. Others like Henry Clay Frick found all the virtue they needed in money making. Some were more complex, exhibiting extremes such as Andrew Carnegie. Whether saint or devil, they did share a belief in the system of capitalism, in particular, paternal capitalism. [download]
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