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Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
Maury Klein is one of America's most acclaimed historians of business and society. In The Power Makers, he offers an epic narrative of his greatest su...
The Crash of 1929
Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an int...
From Carnegie to Gates, How the Great Entrepreneurs Transformed Ideas into Industries
From one of America's foremost business historians, a penetrating and engaging look at the qualities that create great entrepreneurs Entrepreneurs, ev...
Mobilizing America for World War II
The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had...
The Railroad in American Life
A lively survey of the railroad industry by the field's leading historian....
1894 - 1969
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987....
To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E. H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. L...
How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants
The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseba...
This book, first published in 2007, offers a bold new interpretation of American business history during the formative years 1870-1920, which mark the...
"Of all the colorful and controversial figures who shaped the history of the Confederate States, few proved more versatile and paradoxical than Edward...
The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present
The book shows how Union Pacific continues to succeed even as passenger trains have all but disappeared, proving that we still live in a Railroad Age....
Jay Gould was an individual who for a century has been singled out as the most unscrupulous of the turn-of-the-century robber barons. In this splendid...
Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War
“Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholarship.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer In November 1...
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1862 - 1893
Presents an overview of railroad industry, essays on southern rail lines, entrepreneurs, and railroading today and in the future....
One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading
“Some of the most accomplished scholars of railroad history…tell the story of these enterprises which totally re-shaped the western landscape.”�...
The Making of an Organizational Society, 1850-1920
In a provocative new interpretation of a transforming era, 1850P1920, Klein integrates social, economic, and business history and stresses the driving...
American Industrial Cities, 1850-1920
A Study of Businessmen and Business Strategy
The Union Pacific Railroad is renowned as America's first transcontinental railroad and is one of the strongest companies in the railroad industry, to...
Traces the first thirty years of the Union Pacific Railroad, one of the oldest still in operation in the U.S...
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