TY - BOOK AU - Josephson,Matthew TI - The robber barons: the great American capitalists, 1861-1901 AV - HG 181 .J67 1962 U1 - 332/.0973 PY - 1962/// CY - New York PB - Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. KW - Capitalists and financiers KW - United States KW - Industries KW - History KW - Railroads N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-460) and index; Part one, I. The national scene: the national character -- II. What the young men dream -- III. Of empire-builders -- IV. The winning of the west -- V. Two captains of industry -- VI. The fight for Erie -- VII. Grandeurs and miseries of empire-building; Part two, VIII. Rising from the ruins -- IX. Mephistopheles -- X. Caesar Borgia in California -- XI. Giants of the northwest -- XII. Certain industrialists arose -- XIII. Morgan and the railways -- XIV. The robber barons -- XV. Again the robber barons -- XVI. Concentration: the great trusts -- XVII. The empire of Morgan -- XVIII. Battle of giants N2 - "Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Harriman, Gould, Frick... this is the incredible story of the giant American capitalists who boldly seized economic power after the Civil War and altered the shape of American life forever." -- From the back cover UR - https://archive.org/details/robberbaronsg00jose ER -