History of the Great American Fortunes Vol. 2

by Gustavus Myers

Length
10h 4m
Chapters
18
Language
English

History of the Great American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers is a landmark early-20th-century critique of how immense wealth was accumulated in the United States. First published in three volumes between 1909 and 1910, the book examines the rise of powerful American fortunes—from colonial landowners to railroad magnates and industrial monopolists such as the Astors, Vanderbilts, Goulds, Morgans, and Rockefellers. He portrays America's great fortunes not as heroic tales of entrepreneurship but as case studies in systemic injustice, revealing how economic power was amassed not through ingenuity alone but through fraud, exploitation, land grabs, political influence, and manipulation of laws and fin…

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