Lords of Creation Author:Frederick L. Allen Our first golden age began over a century ago. Recovered from the Civil War, secure as a nation from coast to coast, fueled by millions of energetic immigrants (aka cheap labor), unrestrained by regulation, capital America gorged and fed. From 1890 to 1929 it could do no wrong. Those who controlled this growth, the Morgans, Rockefellers, Fords ... more »and Vanderbilts, lived far above the hoi polloi. They were the "lords of creation" about whom Frederick Lewis Allen has written. "Captures an era that in many ways set the tone for our own excesses of the '80s. Proves that times may change, but people rarely do." (Publisher's Source)« less