Author

T. J. Stiles

T. J. Stiles is an American historian and author. He has written extensively about U.S. business, politics, and the American West, drawing on archival research and primary sources. He is credible on early American finance and industrial power—subjects central to The First Tycoon—because his scholarship focuses on economic and political systems and the people who shaped them. Other notable works include Custer’s Trials and Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War.