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HISTORY OF THE GREAT AMERICAN FORTUNES Volume Two of Three Volumes. by Gustavus Myers. Charles H. Kerr 1910.

Narrated by Joseph Tabler

Myers was an American journalist and historian who published a series of highly critical and influential studies on the social costs of wealth accumulation. His name has been associated with the muckraking era of US literature, somewhat erroneously, since his work was not journalistic, did not aim at popular magazine publication, and took a scholarly, investigative, and documentary approach to its subjects. (Wikipedia)

Myers also wrote The History of Tammany Hall' (1901), and History of The Supreme Court of the United States (1912). A History of Canadian Wealth (1914).Ye Olden Blue Laws (1921). History of Bigotry in the United States. (1943).

The Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award was named after him, which honoured books that were judged to be "outstanding in helping shed light on bigotry in America".

PART III

THE GREAT FORTUNES FROM RAILROADS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE SEIZURE OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

II. A NECESSARY CONTRAST

III. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE

IV. THE ONRUSH OF THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE

V. THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE INCREASES MANIFOLD

VI. THE ENTAILING OF THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE

VII. THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE IN THE PRESENT GENERATION

VIII. FURTHER ASPECTS OF THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE

IX. THE RISE OF THE GOULD FORTUNE

X. THE SECOND STAGE OF THE GOULD FORTUNE

XI. THE GOULD FORTUNE BOUNDS FORWARD

XII. THE GOULD FORTUNE AND SOME ANTECEDENT FACTORS

**All historians have some bias or slant. And of course, their works were written in a different time than our own. More can be learned about this author in his Wikipedia entry.

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