The Robber Barons - The Great American Capitalists 1861-1901 (1934)

 
 
 
 
 

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This 1934 book provides a history of the late 19th century that is missing from school history books. The author worked for a few years in Wall Street and learned about the "Men Who Rule America". Later he wrote a number of biographies for a magazine. These men were no match for the great capitalists who flourished in the late 19th century (the Gilded Age). He decided to write not just about their lives, manners and morals, but how they got their money. Their great wealth was unaffected by any income tax. These barons of industry were "agents of progress" in transforming an agrarian-mercantile society into a mass production economy. Josephson described their most ruthless actions, their plunders and conspiracies, and their lack of ethics. The system they created led to the Great Depression. Since then academic historians created a revisionist history that claimed those entrepreneurs were saviors of the country and not interested in looting and plundering the economy. This "history" is similar to the "truth factories" in George Orwell's "1984" [which is about Britain and the world of 1948]. Their family dynasties have survived, they established trusts that evaded the tax burdens of other wealthy families. [Other writers have pointed out that they sponsored universities to control teachers and thinking, and provide other benefits.] These dynasties seem permanent. The founders were hated by the American people in their lifetime. The farmers of Kansas first applied the name "Robber Barons" to the railroads that oppressed them.

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sonden

hello there, would you mind making this document downloadable? that would be great! cheers sonden

12 / 07 / 2009
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Could you please make it available for download?

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free2009all

Only socialists would label capitalists 'robber barons,' which implies, of course, that they stole their wealth either from workers or the planet. They clearly see the excesses, abuses, and other evils of capitalism. It is less clear that they can see--or want to see--the excesses, abuses, and other evils of an overarching government. In point of fact, men like Carnegie started literally with nothing. Through their ingenuity and hard work, however, they built empires that created thousands of jobs and supplied the means to create an infrastructure for a country founded on the principles of divinely inspired equality and inalienable rights. Along that vein, I repudiate any politician and any government that claims that it grants me the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Contrary to decades of statist propaganda--of which universities have been among the loudest propagators--these same rights have applied to every legal citizen of and immigrant to this country. If this were not so, would names like Benjamin Banneker and Booker T. Washington be known? These men refused to be victims and refused to permit anyone to deny what our Creator gave them. Blunders? Excesses? Lack of ethics? Obama, Reed, and Pelosi et al are busily destroying our collective heritage, this opportunity to be great in your own life. Through draconian measures, they are creating three somewhat different classes: rich, privileged statists--themselves; government apparatchiks, which include unions and their thuggery, Obama's private paramilitary force--with, I have no doubt--a stormtrooper mentality, and groups such as ACORN, which commit acts of questionable legality or illegality; and the rest of us. These heartless, mean-spirited, bigoted, hateful, tyrannical politicians, these statists, believe that once they've seized power, it will always be theirs. They and like-minded persons will likely remember the reality of clichés too late: that one reaps what one sows, that what goes around comes around, and, for a bit of a twist, that the evil that one does today, will be one's undoing tomorrow. By the way, what sort of ethical person would stay in a party whose membership includes those who associated or still associate with Nazi collaborators, the KKK, and other racists? There's egalitarianism for you, eh?

03 / 27 / 2009
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