Tycoons of The Gilded Age
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by:
Ron Chernow
3.96 avg rating — 12,214 ratings 
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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T.J. Stiles
3.90 avg rating — 8,805 ratings 5. 
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America
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Les Standiford
3.89 avg rating — 2,670 ratings 6. 
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods & Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
by:
Justin Kaplan
3.39 avg rating — 1,650 ratings 7. 
The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
by:
Edward Ball
3.25 avg rating — 1,500 ratings 8. 
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
by:
Les Standiford
4.09 avg rating — 4,524 ratings 
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American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
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H.W. Brands
3.90 avg rating — 2,129 ratings 
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Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons 3.88 avg rating — 514 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 3.99 avg rating — 13,753 ratings
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The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
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Janet Wallach
3.49 avg rating — 1,303 ratings 
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Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
by:
Peter B. Doran
4.15 avg rating — 665 ratings 20. 
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
by:
Richard White
4.17 avg rating — 1,574 ratings 21. 
The Millionaire and the Mummies: Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in Egypt
by:
John M. Adams
3.47 avg rating — 158 ratings 22. 
Splendid Isolation: The Jekyll Island Millionaires' Club 1888-1942 3.67 avg rating — 450 ratings
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An Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business
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Gerard Helferich
3.61 avg rating — 77 ratings 25. 
Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams 3.84 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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Doomed by Cartoon: How Cartoonist Thomas Nast and the New York Times Brought Down Boss Tweed and His Ring of Thieves
by:
John Adler
3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings 27. 
The Railroad Tycoon Who Built Chicago: A Biography of William B. Ogden
by:
Jack Harpster
3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings 27. 
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.43 avg rating — 12,041 ratings 29. 
The History of the Standard Oil Company (Unexpurgated Edition)
by:
Ida Tarbell
3.91 avg rating — 246 ratings 
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Speedway to Sunshine: The Story of the Florida East Coast Railway
by:
Seth H. Bramson
4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings 32. 
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Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab
by:
Kenneth Warren
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 34. 
The Man Who Loved Libraries: The Story of Andrew Carnegie
by:
Andrew Larsen
3.91 avg rating — 415 ratings 
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Du Pont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain (Forbidden Bookshelf)
by:
Gerard Colby
3.55 avg rating — 85 ratings 38. 
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington
by:
Patricia Miller
4.02 avg rating — 705 ratings 40. 
The Lords of Creation: The History of America's 1 Percent (Forbidden Bookshelf) 4.16 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Documentary Reader
by:
William A. Link
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 43. 
A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age
by:
Geoffrey C. Ward
3.73 avg rating — 291 ratings