You Can't Take It With You: The Life and Afterlife of America's Greatest Fortunes
Eric Schoenberg
8 episodes
9 months ago
In 1918, Forbes Magazine published a list of the 30 richest Americans. At the top was oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, Sr, whose wealth was estimated at a whopping $1.2 billion — more than 5 times as much as his closest rival for the title of richest American, Henry Frick. But by that time, Senior had already started giving much of his vast fortune to charity; by the time he died in 1937, he had given away a total of precisely $530,853,632.He also had passed along $470 milli...
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In 1918, Forbes Magazine published a list of the 30 richest Americans. At the top was oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, Sr, whose wealth was estimated at a whopping $1.2 billion — more than 5 times as much as his closest rival for the title of richest American, Henry Frick. But by that time, Senior had already started giving much of his vast fortune to charity; by the time he died in 1937, he had given away a total of precisely $530,853,632.He also had passed along $470 milli...
You Can't Take It With You: The Life and Afterlife of America's Greatest Fortunes
43 minutes
2 years ago
1. A Man Without A Plan
Railroad baron Mark Hopkins left behind an estate of $24 million when he died in 1878 but left no will to say who should get his vast fortune. Fifty years later, most of his fortune was in the hands of the cousins of the (male) secretary to the second husband of Mark's widow but there were almost a thousand other people claiming to be his rightful heirs.
You Can't Take It With You: The Life and Afterlife of America's Greatest Fortunes
In 1918, Forbes Magazine published a list of the 30 richest Americans. At the top was oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, Sr, whose wealth was estimated at a whopping $1.2 billion — more than 5 times as much as his closest rival for the title of richest American, Henry Frick. But by that time, Senior had already started giving much of his vast fortune to charity; by the time he died in 1937, he had given away a total of precisely $530,853,632.He also had passed along $470 milli...
