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was Myers' most important and influential work, documenting at great length the corruption and criminality underlying the formation and accumulation of the great
American fortunes of the 19th century. From Astor and Vanderbilt, Jay Gould and Marshall Field, Stanford and Harriman, to Elkins, Morgan
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era of US literature, somewhat erroneously, since his work was not journalistic, did not aim at popular magazine publication, and took a scholarly, investigative and documentary approach to its subjects.
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The German Myth: The
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in (1910). In the 1910s he emerged as a leading scholar on
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405:Journal of the American Statistical Association,
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353:The Weekly Review, Vol. I, May/December, 1919.
342:Making of America: The History of Tammany Hall
327:History of Public Franchises in New York City.
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434:America Strikes Back: A Record of Contrasts.
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441:The Ending of Hereditary American Fortunes.
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484:New Jersey Biographical Dictionary.
429:New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925.
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397:A History of Canadian Wealth.
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248:Manufacturing Consent
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420:Ye Olden Blue Laws.
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