It's 1908.

A scrappy, ambitious journalist named Napoleon sits down across from Andrew Carnegie in his 64-room Manhattan mansion.

Hill is a no-name, born dirt poor in a one-room cabin in rural Virginia.

Carnegie is the richest man in the world, a titan of industry.

He came from nothing, made his fortune in steel, crushed his competitors, and built the backbone of American industry. He came from nothing, made his fortune in steel, crushed his competitors, and

built the backbone of American industry. And now, at 72, he's giving it all away. Libraries,

universities, foundations, he's looking to leave a legacy. Carnegie had a proposition for Napoleon.

Interview 500 of the most successful men in America and distill their secrets into a philosophy anyone can follow.

No salary, no advance, just introductions to the most powerful people in the world and a chance to unlock the formula of wealth itself.

The only condition, Napoleon had to share it with the world. Napoleon accepted. The project

would take him 20 years. He would interview Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt,

Alexander Graham Bell, Woodrow Wilson, John D. Rockefeller. He would study their habits,

their mindsets, their failures for decades, and then codify everything

he learned into a single book.

But there was another man.

It's also 1908.

This man's name was Oliver, and he is fleeing on foot through the woods of Alabama from

police with warrants out for his arrest.

Oliver has defrauded lumber suppliers out of tens of thousands of dollars,

buying product on credit and selling it for cash at prices so low

that it raised suspicions from authorities across three states.

His wife has just filed for divorce,

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