The good rich and what they cost us [electronic resource] / Robert F. Dalzell, Jr.

The good rich and what they cost us [electronic resource] / Robert F. Dalzell, Jr.

9780300188882 (electronic book)
9780300175592

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2013]

©2013

English

1 online resource (199 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits

HC110.W4 D35 2013eb

339.40973

To understand the problems that vast individual fortunes pose for democratic values, Robert Dalzell presents an intriguing cast of wealthy individuals from colonial times to the present, including George Washington, one of the richest Americans of his day, the "robber baron" John D. Rockefeller, and Oprah Winfrey, for all of whom extreme wealth is inextricably tied to social concerns. In the process Dalzell uncovers the sources of our contradictory feelings toward the very rich, how they have sought to be perceived as "the good rich," and the reality behind the widespread notion that wealth and generosity go hand in hand in America. Finally, in a thoughtful and balanced conclusion, the author explores the cost of our long-standing attitudes toward the rich."--pub. desc.

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