Matthew Josephson

I wish that his approach to it had been less like the old capitalist-hating historians of the early 20th century, such as Gustavus Myers and Matthew Josephson, and more like modern business historians, such as T.J. Stiles and Maury Klein, who have traveled over the same ground.

Tracks Across America John Steele Gordon 2011

I wish that his approach to it had been less like the old capitalist-hating historians of the early 20th century, such as Gustavus Myers and Matthew Josephson, and more like modern business historians, such as T.J. Stiles and Maury Klein, who have traveled over the same ground.

Tracks Across America John Steele Gordon 2011

Other officials said the same thing, and so did Matthew Josephson (in his 1934 book) calling bankers and business titans "Robber Barons" - men who "lived for market conquest, and plotted takeovers like military strategy."

Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part II 2009

In his landmark 1938 study of political corruption, "The Politicos," Matthew Josephson recalled for his readers the final moments of the Republican 43rd Congress, meeting in a lame-duck session in early 1875.

The GOP's Lame-Duck Push 2008

The times themselves are both trenchantly and rollickingly illustrated in a superb book by Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1934.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

This was, let us remember, the age of American industry that Matthew Josephson has aptly called the time of the robber barons.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

The times themselves are both trenchantly and rollickingly illustrated in a superb book by Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1934.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

This was, let us remember, the age of American industry that Matthew Josephson has aptly called the time of the robber barons.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

As his biographer Matthew Josephson wrote, The number of experiments mounted into the hundreds, then to the thousands; at over ten thousand, Edison said, 'they turned the register back to zero and started over again.'

NPR Topics: News 2011

And finally, as one who is laboring amid the detritus of the late 19th century these days, it was a pleasant surprise to see the forgotten Matthew Josephson make the Fix list.

U.S. News 2010