Description: Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America Author: Michael Hiltzik Title: Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America Publication: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020 Description: Hardcover. New tightly bound hardcover in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index, maps, and B&W photographs. 424 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New / New. "Engrossing... [Hiltzik is] an able narrator, with an eye for telling detail."--New York Times Book Review From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans. 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 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. Spanning four decades and featuring some of the most iconic figures of the Gilded Age, Iron Empires reveals how the robber barons drove the country into the twentieth century--and almost sent it off the rails. Seller ID: 2725 Subject: Trains, US History, US Politics and Government The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Author: Michael Hiltzik
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Year Printed: 2020
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
