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Gilded Age
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The etchings are remarkable. As the Pierpont Morgan Library will be if I am placed in the position of librarian. (25)
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America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons, Vanderbilts, and many more based in dynastic wealth of essentially inexhaustible proportions. John D. Rockefeller made $1 billion a year, measured in today's money, and paid no income tax. No one did, for income tax did not yet exist in America. Congress tried to introduce an income tax of 2 percent on earnings
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― At Home: A Short History of Private Life
― At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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