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...RUSSELL SAGE: THE MONEY KING by Paul Sarnoff. 398 pages. Obolensky...
...lover. Dapper Jay Gould was a consumptive neurotic who was once led by a doctor from a board of directors' meeting in raving hysteria. These great robber barons all had the stuff of celebrity, and all of them have already been documented to death. But not Russell Sage, who was, according to Biographer Paul Sarnoff, more powerful than them all and as eccentric...
...everything from lead mines to trotting tracks, ruled a vast network of railroads that spread from Ohio to the West Coast, established himself as the man who banked the robber barons, eventually scrambled to the top of a $100 million heap. Sarnoff also makes it clear, sometimes inadvertently, that Sage was a liar, a swindler, and a vivid illustration of that cliché about the desire for money being the root of all evil...
...Leap. The son of a struggling New York farmer, Russell Sage left home when he was twelve to work in a grocery store in Troy. He had already decided he would be the richest man in the world, spent one-third of his $4 monthly salary for night-school tuition, and read every book he could find. By 15, he was principal moneylender to the gilded youth of Troy...