The Robber Barons

About this book

“The best, the liveliest and most illuminating” account of John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E. H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Henry Clay Frick and the other men who seized American economic power after the Civil War.“Not a mere series of biographies but a genuine history.” —The New York Times Book Review