Black Titan A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire birthday he probably has a shot

he probably has a shot at the pros

and marching-band practice

" —Angela Bassett

In God’s Trombones

Black Titan A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire birthday he probably has a shotThe 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