EPISODE · Jun 26, 2026
The First Gilded Age: A Constitutional Counter-Revolution By: Boston Smalls
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The robber barons of the first Gilded Age — Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Morgan, Gould — didn't just build unprecedented fortunes. They carried out what scholars call a "constitutional counter-revolution," dismantling the anti-oligarchic principles the Founders had deliberately written into the American project.
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