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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4. Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave
Isaac Singer made a fortune as the co-founder of the Singer Manufacturing Company, whose sewing machines relieved millions of women from the interminable drudgery of hand-sewing clothes, and allowed many of them to start their own small businesses of sewing for hire. But the women in his personal life didn't fare so well: in his will he left nothing to four of the five mothers of his twenty-two children, and he stiffed three of the children as well.
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...
