Career Communiqué

Career Communiqué

The Casting Call

On robber barons, manufactured mythology, and the first industrialized anti-heroes

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Geneèn Wright
Apr 19, 2026
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A 19th century engraving of a woman operating a printing press, framed by Career Communiqué branding — the machinery of publication as the machinery of myth.

No. 2 of 6 from The Origin and Evolution of the Anti-Hero series

New York, 1889. An editor at the North American Review receives a manuscript from Andrew Carnegie. In which he argues that the accumula…

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