Robber Barons
Language: English
Published by Harper Paperbacks January 1962, 1962
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- Title
- Robber Barons
- Author
- Matthew Josephson
- Publisher
- Harper Paperbacks January 1962
- Publication year
- 1962
- Condition
- Used Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0156767902
- ISBN 13
- 9780156767903
- Seller catalogs
- Youth
The definitive book on the rise and power of early American capitalists, The Robber Barons examines the careers of such masters of finance and industry as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, E. H. Harriman, and Henry Clay Frick. In a fascinating narrative, mixing social, economic, and political history, Josephson shows that under the command of these industry titans, the country progressed from a mainly agrarian-mercantile society to an economy propelled predominantly by mass production.
"With great verve and a fine sense of its dramatic values, what [Josephson] has written is not a mere series of biographies but a genuine history, with the stories of the great American capitalists skillfully interwoven, and with an eye always on the broader social background."—New York Times Book Review
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About the Author
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.
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