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#79c - THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT CULLED: History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. II [Part 3]
Added 2021-08-13 18:15:30 +0000 UTCDimitri and Khalid wrap up their coverage of Gustavus Myers’ “History of the Great American Fortunes, Volume II” with the infamous blood-and-fraud-soaked career of robber baron Jay Gould, including: conning his way into the railroad game, boldly defrauding Cornelius Vanderbilt himself, his scandalous conspiracy to corner the entire gold market with cronies Fisk and Belden in 1869, and his eventual defrauding at the hands of the mysterious Scottish con artist “Lord Gordon Gordon”.
