In five pages this paper reviews and critiques Cashman's 1994 text and its condemnation of business control with nineteenth century robber barons and their greed a primary focus. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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Americas history is one that was full of expectation and change. It was the time when the mystique of the American Dream spread throughout the Western world and was
promoted at home by the many examples of success that so many different types and kinds of individuals were able to achieve. It was a time that the stock
boy could work his way through the ranks of a company to become its president; it was a time that nearly anyone could begin literally with nothing and achieve financial
success and economic stability for his family. It also had its dark side, however. Those who were able to take advantage of
the rapid technological changes that were occurring and put them to sound business use meant to be the only ones doing so. Business people did not recognize the value
of competition, only that it inhibited some of the things they wanted to do in their businesses. In America In the Gilded Age, Cashman chronicles the technical and economic
changes that took place between the time of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, the time that America moved from carpetbagger mentality to the need for Roosevelts "trustbusting" efforts. The "Robber Barons"
Cashman (1994) describes the unfolding of the industrial landscape in the years following the end of the Civil War. There were several
issues between the North and the South that led to the outbreak of war, not the least of which was the heavy industrialization of the Northeast. Of course there
were manufacturing facilities in the South and railroads connecting cities, but the South lacked an infrastructure that could support the extensive growth of any kind of industry. Industrialization was
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