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The Robber Barons
by Matthew Josephson
from Harcourt

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• How Robber Barons Reformed America
  This 1934 book provides a history of the late 19th century that is missing from school history books. The author worked for a few years in Wall Street and learned about the "Men Who Rule America". Later he wrote a number of biographies for a magazine. These men were no match for the great capitalists who flourished in the late 19th century (the Gilded Age). He decided to write not just about their lives, manners and morals, but how they got their money. Their great wealth was unaffected by any income tax.... more info

• Interesting book, but
  I found the Robber Barons an interesting book to read but I thought Matthew Josephson's book the Money Lords was better. It is a well written book as you would expect from Josephon. Robber Barons is a classic and a good general history of the pioneers of industry including Astor, Vanderbilt, Drew, Cooke, Gould, Fisk, Carnegie, Morgan, Rockefeller and Harriman of which I am sure most will find it interesting but it lacks the insight and wisdom of Money Lords. There are numerous interesting stories of all the... more info

• The Robber Barons Are Corporatists; NOT Capitalists!
  Oh - the confusion in political language! No, folks, the Robber Barons did not rise out of laissez-faire capitalism; they were not capitalists! The Robber Barons rose out of the State's ability to grant corporate status; they are children of the State. They rose out of Statism, NOT free enterprise. In fact, they are the antithesis of free enterprise as Paul H. Weaver so rudely discovered during his stint at Ford (see The Suicidal Corporation).
  That said, Josephson's book is not just a book on the... more info

• This is the finest history of the Robber Barons
  Judging by the attack "reviews" below there must be some right-wing campaign in progress to discredit Josephson. It's probably being organized by one of those propaganda machines they call "conservative think tanks".
  That nonsense aside, the book itself is a fabulous read as a tome on both history and grand business strategy for building a trust. Indeed I found it difficult to put down at night in order to go to sleep. Josephson brings the Robber Barons alive.
  For anyone interested in how men can... more info

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