Jay gould biography pdf

“Gould, with his 70 millions, was one of the colossal failures of our time. He was a purely selfish man. His greed consumed his charity. He was like death and hell – gathering in all, giving back nothing.”

These were words spoken at a sermon shortly after Jay Gould’s death and they are representative of what most of the American public thought about the rich industrialist.

Jay gould biography pdf

He was regarded as one of the worst examples of the robber barons who thrived during the economic boom of America’s Gilded Age. Gould became one of the richest men in the country and he didn’t care who he had to crush to achieve his goals.

Many of the methods Gould employed would simply be illegal today, but even back then, they were enough to make him hated by his fellow businessmen, but there was another group who hated him even more – the press.

Gould operated during the rise of yellow journalism pioneered by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Their newspapers focused on s