The History of Tammany Hall. E-book. Formato PDF Gustavus Myers   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Since the original publication of this work, a large num ber of inquiries have appeared in the Publisher's Weekly and have come from other quarters requesting information as to where copies of The History of Tammany Hall could be obtained. For the last ten years this work has been in continuous demand but unavailable. For reasons fully set forth in the preface to that issue, the edition of 1901 was brought out in the face of difficulties. Not the least of these was the self-expressed dread of certain publishing houses to bring out a work which (as some of them frankly admitted in their letters of declination) might bring reprisals to them in some unexplained form or other.

History of the Great American Fortunes. E-book. Formato PDF Gustavus Myers   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Before setting out to relate in detail the narrative of the amassing of the great individual fortunes from rail roads, it is advisable to present a preliminary survey of the concatenating circumstances leading up to the time when these vast fortunes were rolled together. Without this explanation, this work would be deficient in clarity, and would leave unelucidated many important points, the absence of which might puzzle or vex the reader. Although industrial establishments, as exemplified by mills, factories and shops, much preceded the construe tion of railroads, yet the next great group of fortunes to develop after, and along with, those from land were the fortunes plucked from the control and manipulation of railroad systems.

History of the Great American Fortunes: Part I: Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times; Part II: The Great Land Fortunes. E-book. Formato PDF Gustavus Myers   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

This being so, our plutocrats rank as nothing more or less than as so many unavoidable creations of a set Of processes which must imperatively produce a certain set of results. These results we see in the accelerated concentration of immense wealth running side by side with a propertyless, expropriated and exploited multi tude.