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Excerpt from The Romance of Steel: The Story of a Thousand Millionaires

This book is the first popular history of our greatest American industry. The wonderful story of steel is here told in such a way that those who have no technical knowledge of steel making may enjoy and appreciate the miracles that have been accomplished.

First, it is a story of the electric expansion of a business from bankruptcy to billions. It is an American story of self help - of the unprivileged men who climbed from poverty to the commercial supremacy of the world. And also it is a biography of that most useful of all metals - the structural metal of modern civilisation.

Now that the iron and steel business has passed into the hands of more than sixty thousand stockholders, there has come a demand for a popular book on the subject, which shall be not only picturesque, but accurate and instructive as well. Therefore, while I have written these pages after the manner of fiction, the facts have been gathered from the highest author ities. Fully nine-tenths of the material has been obtained at first hand, either from the Steel Kings themselves or from original documents. The book is, in fact, the result of a two years' study of the American iron and steel business, made on the spot, and with the assistance of many experts.