One of the chief virtues of this book is the care taken by the author to build up a realistic picture of Edison the man.” — F. Garvin Davenport,The American Historical Review

Includes material on John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpoint Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E.H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Jay Cooke, Daniel Drew, Henry C. Frick, James J. Hill, Charles M. Schwab, Henry ...

The Robber Barons is a classic work on the financiers and industrialists of the Gilded Age, who shaped their own era as well as the future of the United States—“not a mere series of biographies but a genuine history” (The New York ...

A lively history of the parties and the great party oeaders who dominated American politics during the turbulent eyrs of the "Robber Barons."

Includes material on Samuel Insull, the Van Sweringen brothers, A.P. Giannini, Robert R. Young, among others.

With trenchant realism and profound understanding, Josephson presents a realistic biography of the great romantic who authored "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," among others.

A happily executed portrait of an eminent and engaging American.” — Kirkus Reviews “The most thorough study yet available of Smith’s career, and one that also pays considerable attention to Frances Perkins’ contributions to reform ...

Presents profiles of the captains of industry who ruled America after the Civil War including Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and Gould