An era’s commerce came to be led by celebrity industrialists.

Evidence

For the first time, whole industries came to be identified with the names of the powerful individuals who dominated them—Cornelius Vanderbilt, E. H. Harriman, and James J. Hill in railroads, Cyrus McCormick in reapers, John D. Rockefeller in oil, J. P. Morgan in finance, James B. Duke in tobacco, Gustavus Swift and Philip Armour in meatpacking, Andrew Carnegie in steel…. — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 1305

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early micro-celebrities deliberately modeled their personas on admired industry figures. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 309; Celebrity and commerce displaced creative invention as culture’s central values. — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 565

Broader Connections

• Early micro-celebrities deliberately modeled their personas on admired industry figures. #exemplifies (0.85) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 309
• Celebrity and commerce displaced creative invention as culture’s central values. #exemplifies (0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 565