Publisher:
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (2006).
Seller ID: 9710gcs
Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 374 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Standing alongside J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller, Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837 - 1905) was one of the most colorful and controversial public figures in Gilded-Age America. Robber Baron is the first biography of the streetcar magnate who was the mastermind behind Chicago's Loop Elevated and the London Underground, bankroller of the world's largest refracting telescope, and real-life inspiration for Frank Cowperwood, the ruthless protagonist of Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy ... View More...
