Wealth Against Commonwealth
By Henry Demarest Lloyd · Running time 22:41:25 · Business & Economics, Political Science
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Wealth Against Commonwealth documented the economic, social, and political harms of the oil and railroad monopolies during the United States Gilded Age from the 1870s to the 1890s. By concentrating and controlling large sums of wealth, power, and goods among a few corporations and industrialists, journalist and author Henry Demarest Lloyd argued monopolies threaten the well-being of society and democracy, the “common wealth.” Through personal interviews, investigative reporting, court and legislative records, Lloyd revealed how the oil and railroad trusts, among others, actively suppressed com
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