"Since Jews were not allowed to rent, they bought Lawndale--block by block--and they were thrilled to be able, for the first time, to do so. Their focus on acquiring real estate bordered on the obsessive and would play a major role in the success of the Supermob." --Gus Russo
The thread for the first volume can be found here
In 1800s Virginia, a bad system of agriculture and the force of habit prevented material improvement. Wealth was measured in land and African slaves. The land was poor and the slaves were wretched. 
justification of the seamy side of capitalism with inevitable defects
I reached the conclusion that I might ill serve these friends, and the System itself, were I to permit anyone officially connected with its administration to become involved in a public discussion of its present structure and functioning. — Warburg 
p. 2: All these races can still mix blood with each other; for, as in the countries they inhabit, there remains beneath all these diversities a nature common to them all… They were brought into contact, made to depend on each other and merged in the framework of a single society 
"…the larger League needed to maintain law and order throughout the world and to provide a secure basis for the economic interdependence which grew up, under the tutelage of British sea power, in the nineteenth century.” 
The object of [the author] preparing this Manual was, to present to his countrymen in a compact form, the principles of what he thinks may be justly called the American System of Political Economy… - E. Peshine Smith 
I confine my exertions to the refutation of the theory of Adam Smith, and Co., the fundamental errors of which have not been understood so clearly as they ought to be. This theory furnishes to the opponents of the American system the intellectual means of their opposition. 
These men controlled the oil, railroads, communications, and heavy industry of the country. 
Lord Salisbury practiced a shameless nepotism, concealed to some extent by the shifting of names because of acquisition of titles and female marital connections, and redeemed by the fact that ability as well as family connection was required from appointees.
Whatever the maneuvers for financial and market control that went on in the boardrooms of industrial capitalism, no one doubted that investing in and efficiently operating the means of production, especially those of basic industry, was the high road to wealth and fame.
Mahan 
“[The United States] must protect the outlets of her trade, or run the risk of suffocation. Those outlets are maritime, and are threatened by the same coalition which threatens England.”
Alexander Hamilton 
“[T]he question was no longer whether a nation should exercise a right of changing its institutions, but whether a plague should be stamped out before it had passed its borders and infected yet healthy peoples.“
Freidrich List 
