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Capitalism in America: The Cult of Wealth

S01E01A Paradise for Millionaires (1870-1920)

202358m8.0DocumentaryWar & Politics

At the end of the 19th century, a club of millionaires — John D. Rockefeller and his oil monopoly, steel king and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and banker J. P. Morgan, who financed the Industrial Revolution from Wall Street — took over the United States, where immigrants provided a labor force that was ruthlessly exploited.