History of the Great American Fortunes

History of the Great American Fortunes PDF Author: Gustavus Myers
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Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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I. pt. I. Conditions in settlement and colonial times. pt. II. The great land fortunes.--II-III. Great fortunes from railroads.

History of the Great American Fortunes

History of the Great American Fortunes PDF Author: Gustavus Myers
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Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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I. pt. I. Conditions in settlement and colonial times. pt. II. The great land fortunes.--II-III. Great fortunes from railroads.

History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I

History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I PDF Author: Gustavus Myers
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752413573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Reproduction of the original: History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I by Gustavus Myers

History of the Great American Fortunes: Great fortunes from railroads

History of the Great American Fortunes: Great fortunes from railroads PDF Author: Gustavus Myers
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Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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I. pt. I. Conditions in settlement and colonial times. pt. II. The great land fortunes.--II-III. Great fortunes from railroads.

History of the Great American Fortunes -

History of the Great American Fortunes - PDF Author: Gustavus Myers
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512270839
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Languages : en
Pages : 218

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"History of the Great American Fortunes - Volume I" from Gustavus Myers. American journalist and historian (1872-1942).

HISTORY OF THE GREAT AMERICAN FORTUNES,

HISTORY OF THE GREAT AMERICAN FORTUNES, PDF Author: GUSTAVUS. MYERS
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Languages : en
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History of the Great American Fortunes

History of the Great American Fortunes PDF Author: Gustavus Myers
Publisher: Ozymandias Press
ISBN: 1531285678
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Originally published in 1910, a primary source for the business and development of American power in the nineteenth century. As Myers describes in his preface, it was the fashion in the early twentieth century to write of the multi-millionaires in an unfavorable light, as if they were all robber barons and had no social conscience. In his history he was attempting to be more realistic in his perspective.

History of the Great American Fortunes

History of the Great American Fortunes PDF Author: Gustavus Myers
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History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times

History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times PDF Author: Myers Gustavus
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318929504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

History of the Great American Fortunes (Volume Three)

History of the Great American Fortunes (Volume Three) PDF Author: Gustavus Myers
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 9781410203427
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Originally published in 1910, a primary source for the business and development of American power in the nineteenth century. As Myers describes in his preface, it was the fashion in the early twentieth century to write of the multi-millionaires in an unfavorable light, as if they were all robber barons and had no social conscience. In his history he was attempting to be more realistic in his perspective. Volume one tells of the colonization of America and the large land grants and the great land fortunes. Volumes two and three cover the great fortunes from railroads, with extensive material on J. P. Morgan in relation to that category. Gustavus Myers (1872-1942) was an American historian who worked on a number of newspapers and magazines in New York City, joined the Populist party and the Social Reform Club, and was a member (1907-12) of the Socialist party. Such books as The History of Tammany Hall (1901), History of the Great American Fortunes (1910), and History of the Supreme Court of the United States (1912) were detailed, realistic exposes through which Myers made his reputation in the muckraking era of American literature.

History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. 1

History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. 1 PDF Author: Gustavus Myers
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ISBN: 9781440040849
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Excerpt from History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. 1: Part I: Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times; Part II: The Great Land Fortunes In writing this work my aim has been to give the exact facts as far as the available material allows. Necessarily it is impossible, from the very nature of the case, to obtain all the facts. It is obvious that in both past and present times the chief beneficiaries of our social and industrial system have found it to their interest to represent their accumulations as the rewards of industry and ability, and have likewise had the strongest motives for concealing the circumstances of all those complex and devious methods which have been used in building up great fortunes. In this they have been assisted by a society so constituted that the means by which these great fortunes have been amassed have been generally lauded as legitimate and exemplary. The possessors of towering fortunes have hitherto been described in two ways. On the one hand, they have been held up as marvels of success, as preeminent examples of thrift, enterprise and extraordinary ability. More recently, however, the tendency in certain quarters has been diametrically the opposite. This latter class of writers, intent upon pandering to a supposed popular appetite for sensation, pile exposure upon exposure, and hold up the objects of their diatribes as monsters of commercial and political crime. Neither of these classes has sought to establish definitely the relation of the great fortunes to the social and industrial system which, has propagated them. 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.