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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 ...
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. His sharp and often unscrupulous business practices made him one of the wealthiest men of the late nineteenth ...
The Gould family is a wealthy American family that came to prominence in the late 19th century. The family's fortune was primarily earned through a railroad empire built by Jason "Jay" Gould, a notorious "robber baron" during the Gilded Age.
Matthew Josephson (February 15, 1899 – March 13, 1978) was an American journalist and author of works on nineteenth-century French literature and American political and business history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Josephson popularized the term "robber baron".
President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned that a new gilded age of “robber barons” was in danger of ... threatening America’s deepest-held values comes just days before Trump is set to take ...
Robber baron may refer to: Robber baron (feudalism) , an unscrupulous medieval landowner Robber baron (industrialist) , term for unscrupulous 19th-century American businessmen
“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.”