What social problem does the author present in the novel, At Heaven’s Gate?

A major concern of the novel is the amoral world of business and capitalism which had characterized America in the 1920s and which Warren had attacked as one of the Southern agrarian writers in I'll Take My Stand (1930). This type of corruption still has relevance since land development schemes and failed banks and savings and loan scandals have continued to plague the Sunbelt in recent years.