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 History of the Great American Fortunes

By Gustavus Myers

A real history of the United States is this story of the class struggles waged by the middle and working classes against the growth and increase of the power of the owners of the great American Fortunes, vested in the mines, the timber lands, the railroads and the vast industries. In this work, Gustavus Myers has given us a real economic and political history of America, the story of class struggles and wars and the rise of social institutions that protected the Bourgeoisie in their onward sweep to power, and -held the disinherited from access to opportunity, comfort, health and happiness that come through the possession of economic security.

Volume I is the story of the theft of fertile valleys and priceless timber land, the growth of the great proprietary estates, the rise of the trading class, the beginnings of slavery, the origin of shipping and city estate fortunes. $2.00.

Volume IJ is an account of the origin and development of the railronds, the great timber steals and frauds, the coal land gifts, the mineral thefts and the source of the Gould and Vanderbilt fortunes—together with the story of incessant warfare between the robbers and the robbed. $2.00.

Volume III contains the story of the concentration of capital, the rise of the Morgan, Jim Hill and other fortunes, stories of unrestrained thefts, grabs, arson, swindling coal steals, with the accompanying corruption of public officials ard Congress. $2.00. The three volumes, cloth, illustrated, $6.00.

CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY,

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