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Triumphant Plutocracy: A History of the Gilded Age; the Government and Economics of the United States, 1870-1920 - a Senator's Autobiography

Triumphant Plutocracy: A History of the Gilded Age; the Government and Economics of the United States, 1870-1920 - a Senator's Autobiography

Pettigrew, Richard Franklin

Paperback

Political Biographies19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1789873215
ISBN13: 9781789873214
Publisher: Pantianos Classics
Published: Jan 1 1922
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Richard Pettigrew was a United States Senator during the Gilded Age; a time when the captains of industry gained unprecedented power. His recollections of public service span decades.

Running on an anti-corruption platform and representing South Dakota, Pettigrew was appalled as the wealthy owners of the trusts exerted unhealthy influence on the burgeoning economy of the USA. With controlling interests in land, rail, steel, oil, commodities and labor, the trust owners drove out fair competition and monopolized vast swathes of the U.S. economy. Antitrust laws supported by Pettigrew took decades to materialize; as these memoirs grimly rue, much damage was done in the meanwhile.

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