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Stale Stereotypes and the Need for Fresh Insights: The Myth of the Robber Barons - John Franch. Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 374 pp. Acknowledgments, illustrations, endnotes. $46.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-03099-0. - Edward J. Renehan Jr Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons. New York: Basic Books, 2005. xii + 352 pp. Preface, illustrations, endnotes. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-465-06885-5.

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John Franch. Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 374 pp. Acknowledgments, illustrations, endnotes. $46.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-03099-0.
Edward J. Renehan Jr Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons. New York: Basic Books, 2005. xii + 352 pp. Preface, illustrations, endnotes. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-465-06885-5.

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Edwin J. Perkins
Edwin J. Perkins
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University of Southern California
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 227 - 230
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2007

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1 See, for example, Livesay, Harold, Andrew Carnegie and Rise of Big Business, 3rd ed. (New York, 2006)Google Scholar; Chernow, Ron, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (New York, 1998)Google Scholar; , Chernow, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and The Rise of Modern Finance (New York, 1990)Google Scholar.

2 Two recent textbooks in the business history field provide an introduction to the current state of scholarship. See McCraw, Thomas K., American Business, 1920-2000 (New York, 2000)Google Scholar, and Livesay, Harold, American Made: People Who Shaped the American Economy, 2nd ed. (New York, 2006).Google Scholar A dated but still valuable and comprehensive textbook is Mansel Blackford and Kerr, Austin, Business Enterprise in American History, 3rd ed. (Boston, 1993)Google Scholar.

3 Klein, Maury, The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (Baltimore, 1986).Google Scholar

4 , Perkins, Journal of American History (June, 1987), 190–91.Google Scholar