Links to books by Gustavus Myers:
History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I
History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. II
History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. III
History of the Supreme Court of the United States
Meyers wrote some confounding things, but he also performed a valuable service by looking critically at things like methods of wealth accumulation, which have tended toward fraud and insider dealing (for instance, the History of the Great American Fortunes “gives the details of [the Yazoo land scandal] and other frauds that have shaped American history. The moral is that great gifts to insiders have effects that will last centuries.”)