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
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3. A Man With A Better Plan
Stephen Girard and Daniel Ludwig lived strangely parallel lives almost exactly a century and a half apart: both started careers as sailors at very young ages, both made their first fortunes in shipping and then multiplied them via successful investments to become the richest American of their times, and both had wives who gave birth to a daughter that in one case most likely wasn’t his and in the other case definitely wasn’t. And both ended up leaving their entire fortune...
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...
