The Last Titan Percival Farquhar: American Entrepreneur in Latin America

Gauld, Charles A., The Last Titan Percival Farquhar: American Entrepreneur in Latin America, Stanford University. Institute of Hispanic American and Luso-Brazilian Studies, 1964.

Reviewed in The Americas © 1965.

Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1965.

Percival Farquhar (York, Pennsylvania, 1864 — New York, August 4, 1953) was an American businessman with extensive interests in Latin America and Russia.
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Farquhar's dream was to control all the railways of Latin America,[1] in a version of Manifest Destiny. Visionary, controversial, and audacious, Farquhar became the greatest private investor in Brazil between 1905 and 1918. According to the writer and former minister Ronaldo Costa Couto, his empire was comparable to those of Count Francisco Matarazzo and Irineu Evangelista de Souza, The Viscount of Mauá. The writing on Farquhar is full of contradictions, making it very difficult to sort through the legend, hagiography, and libel found in his biographies.