Dimitri and Khalid continue their excavation of venal ruling class criminality in Volume II of Gustavus Myersβ epic anthology βHistory of the Great American Fortunesβ, including: massive land thefts, subversion of the Homestead Act, corruption of the legislatures, fraudulent privatization of public lands, the perennial bourgeois psyop of βreformismβ, and the sinister trialectic between immiserated workers, silk topper monopolists, and the perennially shrinking middle classes. (Part 1 of 2.)