The Lords of Creation: The History of America's 1 Percent (Forbidden Bookshelf)
by Frederick Lewis Allen
View on GoodreadsBetween the depression of the 1890s and the crash of 1929, American financiers and industrial capitalists built a huge corporate and financial expansion and rose to power on it. Frederick Lewis Allen published that history in 1935, from inside the crisis that followed rather than at a distance.
Core ideas
- Four decades of expansion: The story runs from the 1890s depression through the corporate boom to 1929, and carries on past the crash into the crisis after it.
- Cause and effect: According to Kirkus in 1935, Allen researched human motive as closely as economic fact, and tied the two together.
- A second life: Open Road Media reissued it in 2017 as The History of America's 1 Percent, number 1 in its Forbidden Bookshelf series.
Published1935
Pages511
ISBN9781497622661
ReadJun 2023
