The Men Who Built America

Control of the White House (1x7)

Air date: Dec 01, 2012

In 1896, as the presidential election approached, the democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan echoed the anger of the American people, promising to hold the elites to account and to dismantle the trusts. The three titans of American industry, JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, worry and finance the campaign of the republican candidate William McKinley, won over to their cause. McKinley is elected and the business of JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie resumes. On September 14, 1901, William McKinley, who was re-elected, was assassinated by an anarchist worker. Vice-president Theodore Roosevelt takes the reins of power and attacks trusts.