The Robber Barons
The Classic Account of the Influential Capitalists Who Transformed America's Future
Published on 1. June 2018
492 pages
978-0-547-54436-6 (ISBN)
Description
"The best, the liveliest and most illuminating" account of Rockefeller, Morgan, and the other men who seized American economic power after the Civil War (
The New Republic).
John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E.H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Henry Clay Frick... their names carry a powerful historical ring, still echoing today in the countless institutions that are part of their legacy, from universities to museums to banks. But who were the people behind the legends, and how did they rise to their positions of vast wealth and influence in the latter half of the nineteenth century?
The Robber Barons is a classic work on the financiers and industrialists of the Gilded Age, who shaped their own era as well as the future of the United States-"not a mere series of biographies but a genuine history" ( The New York Times Book Review).
John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E.H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Henry Clay Frick... their names carry a powerful historical ring, still echoing today in the countless institutions that are part of their legacy, from universities to museums to banks. But who were the people behind the legends, and how did they rise to their positions of vast wealth and influence in the latter half of the nineteenth century?
The Robber Barons is a classic work on the financiers and industrialists of the Gilded Age, who shaped their own era as well as the future of the United States-"not a mere series of biographies but a genuine history" ( The New York Times Book Review).
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Matthew Josephson (1899-1978) received a Guggenheim fellowship and was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He is the author of, among other books,
Al Smith: Hero of the Cities, winner of the Van Wyck Brooks prize for biography and history.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- PART ONE
- The National Scene: The National Character
- What the Young Men Dream
- Of Empire-Builders
- The Winning of the West
- Two Captains of Industry
- The Fight for Erie
- Grandeurs and Miseries of Empire-Building
- PART TWO
- Rising from the Ruins
- Mephistopheles
- Caesar Borgia in California
- Giants of the Northwest
- Certain Industrialists Arose
- Morgan and the Railways
- The Robber Barons
- Again the Robber Barons
- Concentration: The Great Trusts
- The Empire of Morgan
- Battle of Giants
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Footnotes
