 | The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.50 Josephson is credited with inventing the phrase "robber Baron."
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 | The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton W. Folsom
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 | The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy by Charles R. Morris
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 | Henry Flagler: The Astonishing Life and Times of the Visionary Robber Baron Who Founded Florida by David Leon Chandler
Buy used from: $22.50 Henry Flagler had the good sense and timing to loan John D. Rockefeller when JD needed it. JD gratefully rewarded him, well.
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 | The Vanderbilts by Jerry E. Patterson
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| The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age by Louis Auchincloss
Buy used from: $0.59 A Blue Blood perspective.
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 | Empires of Industry - Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel (History Channel)
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $2.98 Developed the Steel Industry; fell out with Henry Frick; financed public library system.
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 | The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow
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| Trust No One: The Glamorous Life and Bizarre Death of Doris Duke by Ted; Rybak, Tom Schwarz
Duke= tobacco+ money ==Duke Univeersity
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 | Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
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 | American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post by Nancy Rubin Stuart
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $16.57 The heiress to the "Post Toasties" fortune. She inherited 250 millio, then married EF Hutton.
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 | Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America by Les Standiford
Buy used from: $2.20 One-time allies, Carnegie and Frick became enemies over the brutal Homestead, PA, steel strike.
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 | The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family by Ron Chernow
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 | Alfred I. du Pont: The Man and His Family by Joseph Frazier Wall
Buy used from: $3.86 One of America's oldest and richest families.
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 | Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the March of Modern America (Studies in Industry and Society) by Pap A. Ndiaye
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 | When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age by Justin Kaplan
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 | Fortune's Children by Arthur T. Vanderbilt 2nd
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $4.41 One of the Gilded Age's Gilded Children on real money.
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 | Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by David Haward Bain
Buy used from: $5.78 The building of the Transcontiental Railroad was a mammoth physical, logistical and political accomplishment. Four men: Colin Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker _________ were the movers behind the project.
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