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American Aristocrats - A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
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American Aristocrats - A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
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The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great
middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalism
American Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the
Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately
believed in the promise of America. Beginning in 1773 with the
family patriarch, a twice-wounded Revolutionary War hero, the
Andersons amassed land throughout what was then the American west.
As the eminent religious historian Harry S. Stout argues, the story
of the Andersons is the story of America's experiment in republican
capitalism. Congressmen, diplomats, and military generals, the
Andersons enthusiastically embraced the emerging American gospel of
land speculation. In the process, they became apologists for
slavery and Indian removal, and worried anxiously that the
volatility of the market might lead them to ruin. Drawing on a vast
store of Anderson family records, Stout reconstructs their journey
to great wealth as they rode out the cataclysms of their time, from
financial panics to the Civil War and beyond. Through the Andersons
we see how the lure of wealth shaped American capitalism and the
nation's continental aspirations.
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