||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| DEMOCRACY V. CAPITALISM -- THE READER WINS|By Nelson H. Wu|Most Americans regard the Declaration of Independence as our country’s defining document, but historian H.W. Brand makes the argument that another text, Adam Smith’s capitalist manifesto “Wealth of Nations,” held as much influence in shaping our national identity. As Brand explains in “Ame|From Publishers Weekly|In this timely study, University of Texas historian Brands (Traitor to His Class) describes the rise of the great corporate capitalists after the Civil War. J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie constituted an trini
In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power.
The years between the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century saw the wholesale transformation of America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an ...
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