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Iron Empires

By Michael Hiltzik

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Iron Empires

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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 soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. 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 labour; 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.Spanning four decades and featuring some of the most iconic figures of the Gilded Age, Iron Empires reveals how the robber barons drove the United States into the twentieth century - and almost sent it off the rails.
Product details
Number of Pages:
448
Release Date:
2020-07-15
Publication Date:
2020-07-15
Publisher:
Amberley Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1398100269
ISBN13:
9781398100268
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
724 g
Height:
155 cm
Width:
239 cm
Thickness:
39 cm
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