Author: Henry H. Klein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Henry H. Klein
Publisher:
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Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: HENRY H. KLEIN
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033584262
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Henry H Klein
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781298573469
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Stephen Hess
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351532154
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 787

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This is the 30th anniversary edition of a book that was hailed on publication in 1966 as "fascinating" by Margaret L. Coit in the Saturday Review and as "masterly" by Henry F. Graff in the New York Times Book Review.The Constitution could not be more specific: "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States." Yet, in over two centuries since these words were written, the American people, despite official disapproval, have chosen a political nobility. For generation after generation they have turned for leadership to certain families. They are America's political dynasties. Now, in the twentieth century, surprisingly, American political life seems to be largely peopled by those who qualify, in Stewart Alsop's phrase, as "People's Dukes." They are all around us Kennedys, Longs, Tafts, Roosevelts.Here is the panorama of America's political dynasties from colonial days to the present in fascinating profiles of sixteen of the leading families. Some, like the Roosevelts, have shown remarkable staying power. Others are all but forgotten, such as the Washburns, a family in which four sons of a bankrupt shopkeeper were elected to Congress from four different states. America's Political Dynasties investigates the roles of these families in shaping the nation and traces the whole pattern of political inheritance, which has been a little considered but unique and significant feature of American government and diplomacy. And in doing so, it also illuminates the lives and personalities of some two hundred often engaging, usually ambitious, sometimes brilliant, occasionally unscrupulous individuals.

Author: Thomas Sargent Fernon
Publisher: [Philadelphia, Pa.? : s.n.], 1878 (Philadelphia, Pa. : H.B. Ashmead)
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Henry H. Klein
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331889970
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Excerpt from Dynastic America: And Those Who Own It Lincoln warned against and that Theodore Roosevelt called the Invisible Government. It is the power of Great Wealth, lodged in the hands of the Few, wielded for their benefit and against the interest of all the people. Here for the first time is told who constitute that Great Power. Here is shown who these individuals are and of what their wealth consists. Here are shown the details of their possessions and the fact that excessive private fortunes are in the hands of second, third, fourth and fifth generations, who exerted little or no effort to obtain them. The power of the government, that is, of all the people collee tively, should be greater than that of any individual or set of men, and the only way such restoration can be accomplished is by curtailing the wealth-power of the Few. In this book, I propose that private fortunes be limited, so that the surplus or excess over a certain amount, goes to the government. In this way, the government becomes the principal stockholder and bondholder in all monopoly and draws the bulk of revenue therefrom; the cost of government is defrayed out of income on public property, the cost of living reduced, the wages of employees increased, and the interests of small stockholders and bondholders benefited. Taxation in time disappears and govern ment and business become simplified. Such is the remedy which I propose as an offset to the bolshevism and anarchy which threaten. The facts contained in this book should move all right-thinking persons in the same direction. My idea is that the constitution of the United States should be amended to limit excessive private fortunes. All things in life are limited - even the power of the President. Why not restrict the Greed of men and stimulate worthy ambition? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Kevin Phillips
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141941316
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 525

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An acerbic, withering account of the ascent of the Bush family to the pinnacle of the American political and social elite and the implications of the dynasty's hold on power for democracy in America. With an unerring instinct for fakery and humbug,Phillips traces the convoluted trail of Bush mendacity through three generations. The picture he paints of a family willing to do ANYTHING to hold power and a country so craven as to vote for it is both very funny and completely dismaying in equal measure.

Author: Henry H. Klein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 5

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Author: Robert K. Miller Jr.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489919317
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Inheritance and Wealth in America is a superb collection of original essays, written in nontechnical language by experts in sociology, economics, anthropology, history, law, and other disciplines. Notable chapters provide - an outstanding interpretative history of inheritance in American legal thought - a critical review of the literature on the economics of inheritance at the household and societal levels - a superb history of Federal taxation of wealth transfers, and - a sociological examination of inheritance and its role in class reproduction and stratification. This groundbreaking work is of value to any researcher dealing with the transmission of wealth and privilege across generations.