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Few business leaders or entrepreneurs in American history have done more to enable progress and prosperity than Samuel Insull, despite how few know of his existence. Yet eighty years ago, he was one of the most famous people in America and Europe—and would become one of the most despised. Starting with nothing, the entrepreneurial Insull became one of the most intelligent and skilled entrepreneurs to have lived through the later 1800s and into the first half of the 20th century. He did more to bring electricity to America than any person outside its inventors. He put together an energy empire worth billions, only to lose it all. What happened then is one of the great tragedies of business history.
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