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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 ...
Legendary Raubritter Eppelein von Gailingen (1311–1381) during his escape from Nuremberg Castle. A robber baron or robber knight (German: Raubritter) was an unscrupulous feudal landowner who, protected by his fief's legal status, imposed high taxes and tolls out of keeping with the norm without authorization by some higher authority.
The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists (1934) The Politicos (1938, essay) The President Makers: The Culture of Politics and Leadership in an Age of Enlightenment 1896–1919 (1940) Victor Hugo (1942, biography) Empire of the Air: Juan Trippe and the Struggle for World Airways (1943) Stendhal (1946, biography) Sidney Hillman (1952 ...
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.
Carnegie did not want to marry during his mother's lifetime, instead choosing to take care of her in her illness towards the end of her life. [89] After she died in 1886, the 51-year-old Carnegie married Louise Whitfield, [89] who was 21 years his junior. [90] In 1897, [91] the couple had their only child, Margaret, whom they named after ...
"More than a century ago, American people stood up to the robber barons back then and busted the trusts," Biden said. "They didn't punish the wealthy. They just made the wealthy play by the same ...
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 ...
Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877), nicknamed "the Commodore", was an American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. [1] [2] After working with his father's business, Vanderbilt worked his way into leadership positions in the inland water trade and invested in the rapidly growing railroad industry, effectively transforming the geography of the ...