And they have pictures… Take a look at the picture of Jay Gould. Does that look like “a robber baron who made a fortune in 1800s by pushing up gold prices and prompting a scare in stock market?” ...

The Robber Barons are alive and well ... Some of these men would make Jay Gould look angelic. For five years, Ken Auletta covered the communications industry for The New Yorker and was afforded ...

Edward Renehan talked about The Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons, published by Basic Books.… read more Edward Renehan talked about The ...

Adam Smith tells the story of the most rascally railroad pioneer Jay Gould and his trail of corruption. From 2016. Show more In the 19th century, so-called 'Robber Barons' - men like Cornelius ...

Which robber baron was a genius in finances? In spite of being vilified by Wall Street for over a century as its most notorious villain, Jay Gould was its most innovative and creative man. His unique ...

THE MISUNDERSTOOD LIFE OF JAY GOULD, KING OF THE ROBBER BARONS By Edward J. Renehan Jr. Basic Books, $30, 364 pages REVIEWED BY ROGER K. MILLER Upon Jay Gould’s death Joseph Pulitzer said he was ...

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt rarely spoke ill of his close rivals. Not that he had all that many of them. By the early 1870s he was the richest American, owner of the mighty New York Central and ...

In the 19th century, so-called 'Robber Barons' - men like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan - seized the great new opportunities thrown up by ...