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American Aristocrats
A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism
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 west. As the eminent religious historian Harry S. Stout argues, the story of the Andersons is the story of America’s experiment in republican capitalism. Congressmen, diplomats, and military generals, the Andersons enthusiastically embraced the emerging American gospel of land speculation. In the process, they became apologists for slavery and Indian removal, and worried anxiously that the volatility of the market might lead them to ruin. Drawing on a vast store of Anderson family records, Stout reconstructs their journey to great wealth as they rode out the cataclysms of their time, from financial panics to the Civil War and beyond. Through the Andersons we see how the lure of wealth shaped American capitalism and the nation’s continental aspirations.

American Aristocrats A Family a Fortune and the Making of American Capitalism 1st Table of contents:

1 Richard Clough Anderson, the Patriarch: 1750–1787
2 Measuring the Land: 1787–1796
3 A New Generation: 1797–1812
4 Richard the Sage: 1812–1817
5 “My Debts Must Be Paid!”: Politics and Land in the Evolving West: 1817–1822
6 An Ill-Fated Mission: 1822–1824
7 A Tragic End: 1824–1826
8 The New Patriarch: 1826–1834
9 Rocky Mountain Highs and Real Estate Lows: 1835–1838
10 A Time of Testing: 1839–1844
11 Robert’s Mexican War: 1844–1848
12 Andersons at Home: 1848–1856
13 Times of Trial: 1857–1861
14 Charles Anderson’s Civil War: 1862–1865
15 An Ex-Confederate Colony: 1865–1866
16 Andersons in Transition: 1866–1870
17 Legacies: 1871–1888
Afterword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise for American Aristocrats
Notes
Index
 

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