Wealth Against Commonwealth

by Henry Lloyd

Overview

"As much an epoch-making book as Uncle Tom's Cabin." -Edward Everett Hale, Author and Historian (1899) Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894) by Henry Demarest Lloyd was written as one of several projects the author undertook to publicize the negative effects of early twentieth century, monopolistic business practices, especially those of the Standard Oil company. It had a major influence on the growth of the Progressive Movement that was popular at the time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798891350724
Publisher:	Cosimo Classics
Publication date:	03/08/1905
Pages:	572
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.27(d)

About the Author

HENRY DEMAREST LLOYD (1847-1903) was a muckraking journalist and a supporter of the Progressive Movement. As a journalist, Lloyd was the chief editorial writer for The Chicago Tribune and also wrote in The Atlantic Monthly. Later on, Lloyd ran for United States Congress as a candidate of the People's Party and pioneered in the "Winnetka system" of self-government, a reform cause taken up by the labor movement.