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Sugar barons have funneled $13 million to federal officeholders in the past eight years to block any cuts in sugar subsidies, which add $1.
Myth of the Robber Barons , by Burton W. Folsom Jr.
The union's local bosses were no better: The "barons" padded their payrolls with family members, paid themselves enormous salaries (as much as $500,000 a year), took bribes from employers in exchange for sweetheart contracts, siphoned pension funds into mob-run operations, and generally screwed their rank and file.
Hanna elected William McKinley president in 1896 by marshalling the wealth of the robber barons on his behalf.
Brinkley, a highly class-conscious historian, is better at robber barons, depressions, strikes, and grass-roots politics than at wars and natural history.