America’s 60 Families

Author: Ferdinand Lundberg

He received his M.A in the USA (Columbia University) and he worked as a journalist (“The Wall Street Journal” and the “New York Herald Tribune” among others…). He studied the history of the wealth and power that accompanies it.

“Ferdinand Lundberg wrote a book in the ‘30s that was one of the greatest examples of political reporting. It’s called America’s 60 Families. This would be our one-tenth of 1 percent—it’s about how 60 families controlled 95 percent of the wealth in the United States. I came across that book as I was researching the robber barons and I thought it was the greatest book” – Robert Caro

In how far these families are interwoven and intertwined, the author describes precisely, he also describes how these families monopolize the most important corporations of the USA, which operate worldwide.

Here you will find a small list of the families which, according to the tax records of 1924, were among the richest and thus the most powerful in the USA (NNDB – Notable Names Database):

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