Plot Synopsis

Using re-creations and expert commentary, this one-hour series profiles the tycoons who made America, revealing what it took for the founding fathers of the Fortune 500 to steer the Industrial Revolution into the Gilded Age. During this era of incredible industrial potential, there were many on the road to absolute power -- these are the stories of those who out-fought, out-spent, and out-smarted their rivals to reserve their chapter in the history books and make America what it is today. AMERICAN TITANS chronicles their ferocious drive, innovation and often sheer recklessness, which took these visionaries to the top of the rich-and-powerful list, often making enemies while building their fortune. Each 60-minute episode features two titans of business, including: Andrew Carnegie, the undisputed "man of steel," and Henry Clay Frick, the king of coke; John D. Rockefeller, king of Standard Oil, and Thomas A. Scott, the visionary behind the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, who go to battle over how power should be transmitted across the globe; William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, whose circulation battle is like no other in the history of publishing; Cornelius Vanderbilt who built a formidable railroad empire centered in New York City and Daniel Drew, who shamelessly manipulated the company stock to line his pockets; and two of Montana's larger-than-life titans, Marcus Daley and William Clark, who battle against each other in a clash over copper, the resource that will power America's new age of electricity.
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On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 10pm ET/PT, AHC premiered the season finale of AMERICAN TITANS. In the season ender, "Daly vs. Clark," businessmen William A. Clark and Marcus Daly find themselves in a battle to mine copper ore hidden in the hills of Montana.