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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
To understand the problems that vast individual fortunes pose for democratic values, Robert Dalzell presents an intriguing cast of wealthy individuals from colonial times to the present, including George Washington, one of the richest Americans of his day, the "robber baron" John D. Rockefeller, and Oprah Winfrey, for all of whom extreme wealth is inextricably tied to social concerns. In the process Dalzell uncovers the sources of our contradictory...
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