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The originators of the Robber Baron concept were not the injured, the poor, the faddists, the jealous, or a dispossessed elite, but rather a frustrated group of observers led at last by protracted years of harsh depression to believe that the American dream of abundant prosperity for all was a hopeless myth. ...
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 ...
Biden called on Americans to stand up against this rising tech threat just as Americans “stood up to the robber barons back then and busted the trusts” during the last gilded age over a ...
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.
Robber baron may refer to: Robber baron (feudalism), an unscrupulous medieval landowner; Robber baron (industrialist) ...
“They see him as an oligarch of the Gilded Age, the railroad robber barons,” said Zeihan, who added that Musk is perceived as “using government policy to advance his corporate interests.”
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.