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Men Of Wealth The Story Of 12 Significant Fortunes

Featured: * FUGGER THE RICH: Organizer of Capitalism * JOHN LAW: Money Magician * THE ROTHSCHILDS: Imperialist Bankers * COSIMO DE' MEDICI * SIR THOMAS GRESHAM * ROBERT OWEN: The Reformer * CORNELIUS VANDERBILT: The Rail King * HETTY GREEN: The Miser * MITSUI: The Dynast * CECIL RHODES: Empire Builder * BASIL ZAHAROFF: The Warmaker * HUGO STINNES * MARK HANNA: The Politico * JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER: The Builder * J. PIERPONT MORGAN: The Promoter Foreword WHAT FOLLOWS IN this volume is obviously a series of biographical essays. They present the outlines of the lives of eleven men and one woman. They are offered as twelve significant fortunes since the Renaissance. It would have been a simple matter to have made a somewhat different selection. I might have chosen one of the Medici or Sir Thomas Gresham or Jacques Coeur instead of Jacob Fugger in the dawn of the capitalist system. At a later period I might have written of the Brothers Paris or Samuel Bernard rather than John Law. I might have chosen Ouvrard, the financier of the French Revolution and Napoleon, as well as the Rothschilds. What excuse, someone will ask, can there be for including Cornelius Vanderbilt and not John Jacob Asto

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