Iron empires : robber barons, railroads, and the making of modern America
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
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Book
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Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
385.0973 HILTZIK
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 424 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
UPC
40030096594

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In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. Hiltzik shows how the vicious competition between empire builders such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, and E. H. Harriman sparked stock market frenzies, panics, and crashes; provoked strikes that upended the relationship between management and labor; transformed the nation's geography; and culminated in a ferocious two-man battle that shook the nation's financial markets to their foundations and produced dramatic, lasting changes in the interplay of business and government. -- adapted from jacket