The first period of the twentieth century - that stretch of years
beginning in the 1870s and ending with the United States' entry
into World War I - is known as the Gilded Age. This was the era of
the ""Robber Barons"" and the origin of modern America. These were
the years in which developments in coal, steam, oil, and gas forged
our national infrastructure. West Virginia and the Captains of
Industry show how the excesses of the Gilded Age and the latitude
our government accorded industrialists of the time created an
impact on the fragile economy of our new state that accounts for
much of the political and economic landscape of modern West
Virginia. Gracefully written and thoroughly researched, West
Virginia and the Captains of Industry has become a classic work of
West Virginia history since its first publication by the West
Virginia University Press in 1975. Anyone interested in the history
of our state must read this revised edition; then again, so must
anyone interested in the future of West Virginia.
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