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Gustavus Myers

Born

in Trenton, New Jersey, The United States

March 20, 1872

Died

December 07, 1942

Genre

History, Politics, Society

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Gustavus Myers (1872–1942) was an American journalist and historian who published a series of influential studies on wealth accumulation. His name is associated with the muckraking era of U.S. literature—somewhat erroneously, since his work is not journalistic, does not aim at popular magazine publication and takes an altogether more scholarly investigative approach to its subjects.

In the decade of the 1910s, he emerged as a leading scholar of the American socialist movement when he authored a series of volumes for Charles H. Kerr & Co., the country's largest publisher of Marxist books and pamphlets.

Between 1909 and 1914, Myers published three volumes on the history of family wealth in the United States, one volume on the same topic for C ...more

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Gustavus Myers’s books

Average rating: 4.02 · 91 ratings · 16 reviews · 40 distinct works

	History of the Great American Fortunes 4.14 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1907 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History Of The Great American Fortunes V1 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2010 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Canadian Wealth by Gustavus Myers, Stanley Ryerson (Introduction) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1972 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History Of The Great American Fortunes V2 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2002 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The history of Tammany Hall 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006 — 90 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History Of The Great American Fortunes V3 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of Bigotry in the United States 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of Hereditary American Fortunes 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1939 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Great Fortunes from Railroads 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of the Supreme Court of the United States it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1912 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars