Category: USA

• Poor Edward Bellamy

  Edward Bellamy was a writer who wrote the Utopian novel 2000-1887: Looking Backward,where Julian West wakes up in a Utopian society in the year 2000 where everyone is equal and everyone is wealthy. A while back I did an essay on the Robber Barons, the ruthless capitalists who ruled America during the Gilded Age of the 1900,…

  sassevn

  January 8, 2013

  History & Culture, USA

  capitalism, edward bellamy, looking backward, socialism

• “Turn the Screw”: Big Business & the Robber Barons

  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got nothing on these guys.  The manipulators of the banking system and real estate market which helped crash our economy in 2008 might actually seem a little tame when pitted head to head with the original Robber Barons.  What do you know about these guys?  Jay Gould, Joseph Huntington, Jay…

  sassevn

  February 8, 2012

  History & Culture, USA

  big business, Jay Cooke, Jay Gould, Joseph Huntington, Robber Barons, Rockefeller