Full name: The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901

Author: Matthew Josephson Year: 1934 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Business, Non Fiction, Economics, Biographies, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780156767903 0156767902

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). Similar books: From Colony to Superpower by George C. Herring American Colossus by H. W. Brands Unsolved Mysteries of American History by Paul Aron Restless Giant by James T. Patterson Duel by Thomas Fleming Grand Expectations by James T. Patterson That's Not in My American History Book by Thomas Ayres A Short History of the United States by Robert V. Remini I Wish I'd Been There by Byron Hollinshead American Colonies by Alan Taylor America at 1750 by Richard Hofstadter The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester The Cycles of American History by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Lions of the West by Robert Morgan First great triumph by Warren Zimmermann The Hellhound of Wall Street by Michael Perino The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S. Landes Love and Capital by Mary Gabriel Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba by Tom Gjelten The Oligarchs by David E. Hoffman