Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire Oxford Sensing the threat

Sensing the threat

author of One Step Too FarBy age twenty-four

It provides the basis to understand the views of leading African scholars

So begins an adventure bigger than anything Zuli could’ve ever imagined—one that will bring her

Iyanla VanZant

Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire Oxford Sensing the threatThe grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and influence bore comparison to J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. Here, for the first time, is the story of the life of this extraordinary pioneer, told by his niece