Iron empires : robber barons, railroads, and the making of modern America
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
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Book
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult) | 385.0973 HILTZIK | Checked Out | February 19, 2025 |
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LC Subjects
Big business -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Industrialists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Railroads -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1865-1918.
United States -- History -- 1865-1921.
Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Industrialists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Railroads -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1865-1918.
United States -- History -- 1865-1921.
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 424 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
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