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Josephson, Matthew

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Matthew Josephson (February 15, 1899 – March 13, 1978) was an American historian, biographer and journalist. He authored works on French novelists of the 19th century, and on U.S. political and economic history of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He popularized the term "robber baron" in his best-selling 1934 book The Robber Barons about the first American tycoons.

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THE cannonading that began at Charleston with the dawn of April 12,1861, sounded the tocsin for the men of the new American union.

— from The robber barons, 1934

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The robber barons

1934

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Includes material on John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpoint Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E.H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Jay Cooke, Daniel Drew, Henry C. Frick, James J. Hill, Charles M. Schwab, Henry Villard, Standard Oil Company, trusts.

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Victor Hugo

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Al Smith: hero of the cities

1969

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Freshly examined and balanced if admiring account of Smith, his background, political development from ward politician to New York governor and presidential candidate, legislative and administrative contributions, unhappy close of his political career, and his person and personality.

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