American Aristocrats: A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism

by Harry S. Stout

Book Overview

The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalism

American Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately believed in the promise of America. Beginning in 1773 with the family patriarch, a twice-wounded Revolutionary War hero, the Andersons amassed land throughout what was then the American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465098983
• ISBN13: 9780465098989
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"