The Robber Barons - Matthew Josephson [epub]

Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Harriman, Gould, Frick... this is the story of the giant american capitalists who seized economic power after the Civil War and altered the shape of american life forever.

The Robber Barons was written in 1934, but there’s not much that seems dated about this enjoyable popular history. It is one of the best books written on the subject of the economic transformation of the U.S. after the Civil War through the early 1900s told through the stories of the rise (and occasional fall) of the giants of capitalism that created the modern U.S. Economy