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Historian Richard White argues that the builders of the transcontinental railroads have attracted a great deal of attention but the interpretations are contradictory: at first very hostile and then very favorable. White writes that they were depicted as: Robber Barons, standing for a Gilded Age of corruption, monopoly, and rampant individualism.
Tech titans vs. robber barons and industrialists. WOLF: The other thing that I think could be a tie-in to the Gilded Age could be that during Trump’s inauguration, the tech titans amassed behind ...
Richard Morris Hunt: Oakdale: Burned down in 1899 [52] more images: Rockwood Hall: 1886: Elizabethan: Gervase Wheeler (1849 house) Ebenezer L. Roberts and Carrère and Hastings (c. 1890 renovation) Mount Pleasant: It was the second-largest house in the U.S.; Demolished c. 1941 [53] Reid Hall: 1892 Romanesque and medieval Stanford White: Purchase
Thomas Alexander Scott (December 28, 1823 – May 21, 1881) was an American businessman, railroad executive, and industrialist. In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him to serve as U.S. Assistant Secretary of War, and during the American Civil War railroads under his leadership played a major role in the war effort.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned that a new gilded age of “robber barons” was in danger of eroding Americans’ hard-won freedoms unless the government takes steps to ensure that the ...
The family's fortune was primarily earned through a railroad empire built by Jason "Jay" Gould, a notorious "robber baron" during the Gilded Age. At its height, this network comprised the Denver & Rio Grande, Missouri Pacific, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Wabash, Texas Pacific, Western Maryland and International-Great Northern railroads among others ...
The last administration to successfully alter federal employee standards was Jimmy Carter's. Although he managed to reduce the time period it took to fire federal employees to seven months from 14 ...
The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861–1901. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. Klein, Maury (1997). The Life and Legend of Jay Gould. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801857713. Klein, Maury. "Jay Gould: A Revisionist Interpretation". Business and Economic History 2d ser., 15 (1986): 55–68. JSTOR 23702860.