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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vanderbilt: The very name is synonymous with the Gilded Age. The family patriarch, "the Commodore, " built a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after his death, no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Written by descendant Arthur T. Vanderbilt II, Fortune's Children traces the dramatic and amazingly colorful history of this great American family, from the rise of industrialist and...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (22 hr., 50 min.))
Language
English
Description
Understanding wealth in the United States--who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it--is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation. But until now we have had little reliable information. Edward Wolff, one of the world's great experts on the economics of wealth, offers an authoritative account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of wealth since 1900.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time, the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. Through interviews filmed over four years, Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality, tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the wealthiest...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economi c evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today."--Provided by publisher.
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...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 370 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A century ago, just like today, the rich dominated America, but by the 1950s the rich no longer ruled. The United States had become the first middle class nation the world had ever seen. This interesting history examines what brought about this transformation, and recounts the battle against plutocracy that turned the wealth of the few into opportunity for the many.
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