History of the Great American Fortunes

Download or read book History of the Great American Fortunes written by Gustavus Myers and published by Ozymandias Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.