Greg F.

When you wrote: You're right, Robo- some of the robber barrons were utter shit, and some were even worse shit. I concede your point. I appreciate your open mindedness, yet I think you are revealing just a bit of bias. The main point, which you did concede, was that the robber barons were not all the same. John D., and for that matter Andrew Carnegie, accomplished a lot more for this country than, for example, Jay Gould.
I wasn't aware you'd made a 'dare'. Chernow is 'very' contemporary and I haven't heard you challenge the quality of his work. He presented most of the material without a value judgement of his own, although he repeated the value judgements of others. You have quoted a socialist source which is hardly balanced. Your own opinion, to which you are entitled, is not balanced. I have merely put forth some of the pretty good results of Rockefeller's activities in and out of business. As for the fact that it's a single book, yeah, but, Greg, it's a damn BIG single book with a big index.
Please feel free to recommend some other sources that are either 'unbiased' or more likely to present multiple viewpoints.
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"Socialism is a great theory," a witty person once said, "The only problem is it can be realized"
and how right I was!
-Ephraim Kishon