Legendary muckraker Gustavus Meyers’ final of three volumes in his massive account of the origins of certain American oligarchs turns his look to what was for generations a central feature of U.S. social, economic, and political life; the power and wealth of the railroad magnates.

History of the Great American Fortunes, Volume Three: Great Fortunes from Railroads Continued by Gustavus Myers. Charles H. Kerr Co-Operative, Chicago. 1910.

Contents: An Insert on the Sage Fortune, More Details of the Sage Fortune, The Gould Fortune Resumed, Present State of the Gould Fortune, The Blair and the Garrett Fortunes, The Pacific Quartet, J. Pierpont Morgan’s Genesis, The Flowering of the Morgan Fortune, Morgan as a Banking and Railroad Grandee, Morgan the “Peerless Captain of Industry”, Morgan at His Zenith, Morgan as “The Savior of the Nation”, The Elkins Fortune, The Hill Fortune.

The Charles H Kerr publishing house was responsible for some of the earliest translations and editions of Marx, Engels, and other leaders of the socialist movement in the United States. Publisher of the Socialist Party aligned International Socialist Review, the Charles H Kerr Co. was an exponent of the Party’s left wing and the most important left publisher of the pre-Communist US workers movement.

PDF of original book: https://archive.org/download/historyofgreatam03myeruoft/historyofgreatam03myeruoft.pdf