The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861–1901

Why read it

• You will see how a mercantile, agrarian democracy became a unified industrial society controlled by a hierarchy
• You will weigh the author's charge that vast efficiency was built only for private profit, a contradiction behind later disaster
• You will notice how concentrated wealth can win over politicians, churches and schools until its power seems sanctioned

Who it is for

• A reader trying to understand the origins of American big business
• A history student studying the Gilded Age
• Someone weighing whether great fortunes serve or exploit a nation

Contents

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