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**A look at America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the capitalists who changed the world—setting the stage for the most devastating global financial collapse in history—from “a diligent and perceptive reporter” (*Forbes*).**In the decades following the Civil War, America entered an era of unprecedented corporate expansion, with ultimate financial power in the hands of a few wealthy industrialists who exploited the system for everything it was worth. The Rockefellers, Fords, Morgans, and Vanderbilts were the “lords of creation” who, along with like-minded magnates, controlled the economic destiny of the country, unrestrained by regulations or moral imperatives. Through a combination of foresight, ingenuity, ruthlessness, and greed, America’s giants of industry remolded the US economy in their own image. They established their power and authority, ensuring that they—and they alone—would control the means of production, transportation, energy, and commerce—creating the conditions for the stock market collapse of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed.As modern society continues to be affected by wealth inequality and cycles of boom and bust, it’s as imp

Author

Allen, Frederick Lewis; Miller, Mark Crispin; Morgenson, Gretchen

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Published

1935

Language

EN

ISBN

9781504047876

Subjects

History, Finance, Economics