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Portrait of a Robber Baron: Charles T. Yerkes

Sidney I. Roberts

Business History Review, 1961, vol. 35, issue 3, 344-371

Abstract: Chicago's traction king was a master of corruption and financial legerdemain, but his contempt for public opinion proved at last to be his undoing. Out of such flamboyant transgressions great reform movements grew, and the character of all big business operators was made suspect.

Date: 1961
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