1937 AMERICA'S 60 FAMILIES Ferdinand Lundberg Wall Street New York Millionaires

by Ferdinand Lundberg

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Title: America's 60 Families Author: Ferdinand Lundberg Publisher: Vanguard (1937) Description: An important book. Exhaustive study and entertaining history of who runs America and how the great fortunes of private families came to be. This 1937 book has influenced generations of people in their world viewpoint. It is one of the books that gave rise to the theory that the 1% have undue influence on all aspects of life and that there is great wealth inequity and how that inequity affects many things. It was written to provoke and it succeeded and remains today an influential book for those interested in social history, government policies and what some people regard as an unfair system benefitting a select group of people that they feel is still in place. Author Ferdinand Lundberg backs up his writings with a long bibliography and sources of the things he writes. So is he a muckraker stirring up discontent? Is this an attack on capitalism? Or merely a critical analysis of concentrated wealth in the hands of the few? That is up to the reader to decide. That the wealthy had a grasp upon all aspects of the shape of the world as it was back in the 20th century is well known. And obviously there are many who believe that the same applies today - even if many of the families profiled in this 1937 study are no longer the same as the wealthy people who control the world today. But you would be surprised at how many of these names are still prominent in the 21st century world of financ

• Publisher: Vanguard Press
• Year: 1937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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