| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901–2001. By Kenneth Warren. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. xviii, 405 pp. $32.00, ISBN 0-8229-4160-0.)

In our present "new economy" age, some might not recall that the United States Steel Corporation was perhaps America's most notable firm for much of the twentieth century. From its birth in 1901 as the world's first billion-dollar enterprise through its well-publicized battles with both government and organized labor and into its international trade conflicts in more recent years, "big steel" (as the firm was known) has been at the center of much of the nation's political and economic history. Yet in spite of this U.S. Steel is still one of the least known firms relative to its historical significance. It is thus with high expectations that one welcomes Kenneth Warren's Big Steel, as the author was given unlimited access to the private records of the company in order to chronicle its first century of existence. The last time U.S. Steel opened up its files to a professional historian, the outcome was Joseph Wall's magisterial Andrew Carnegie (1970), perhaps the best biography of an American businessman ever written. . . .

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