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A critic of this tactic drew a political comic depicting Vanderbilt as a feudal robber baron extracting a toll. In his 1934 book The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists 1861-1901, Matthew Josephson argued that the industrialists who were called robber barons have a complicated legacy in the history of American economic and social life ...
"The Big Four" was the name popularly given to the famous and influential businessmen, and railroad tycoons — also called robber barons — who funded the Central Pacific Railroad (C.P.R.R.), which formed the western portion through the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States, built ...
The German term for robber barons, Raubritter (robber knights), was coined by Friedrich Bottschalk in 1810. [2] Some robber barons violated the custom under which tolls were collected on the Rhine either by charging higher tolls than the standard or by operating without authority from the Holy Roman Emperor altogether.
Jason Gould (/ ɡ uː l d /; May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who founded the Gould business dynasty.He is generally identified as one of the robber barons of the Gilded Age.
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 education division of the National Endowment for the Humanities has prepared a lesson plan for schools asking whether "robber baron" or "captain of industry" is the better terminology. The lesson states that it attempts to help students "establish a distinction between robber barons and captains of industry.
Musk, to his credit, shared on X that if he were chosen to lead, he would do the job free of charge. ... “They see him as an oligarch of the Gilded Age, the railroad robber barons,” said ...
Josephson's first biographies were Zola and His Time (1928) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1932). Influenced by Charles A. Beard and the Depression, and with only one major exception, Stendhal: or the Pursuit of Happiness (1946), Josephson changed his focus of interest from literature to economic history when he published The Robber Barons in 1934 ...