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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 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 centuryâ??and almost sent it off the rails. Narrated by Nick Tecosky.… (meer)
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Hiltzik, is a fantastic 5*book on the Gilded Age specifically dealing with building of the great railroad empires. The book tosses about some familiar names Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan Jay Gould, Jim Fisk and one unfamiliar with me in E.H. Harriman.
A fantastic book that deals speaks of some of the familiar stories such as how Fisk and Gould tried to get one over on the Commodore and the Trust Busting of Theodore Roosevelt. Truly a fantastic book on the making, merging and running of the Train Trusts in the 1800's through early 1900's.
Including the Epilogue it runs only 379 pages, but a fast read that I heartily endorse for all interested in the empire building of the Gilded Age. ( )
2021 book #37. 2020. The railroads in the 1890s were like the dot coms in the 1990s except with more iron. More money made on speculation than on the business itself. Interesting history. ( )
Maps were a challenge - relying on the Rand McNally Road Atlas and the Readers Digest Atlas, as many rail lines are not there and former key junctions (like Cairo Illinois) are tiny towns. Google can provide historical pictures of a lot of the infrastructure, and unexpected long tails with the descendants of the principals. Jay Gould’s great great grandson is an Irish lord with an interest in the only graveyard in Portugal that commemorates the fallen in the Peninsula War. The book is an excellent pathway through US industrial development, in parallel with the weightier accounts by White, Altschuler and Urofsky - and the biographies of Duveen. Also a magnificent narrative - Harriman and John Muir, what an unlikely pair. ( )
5707. Iron Empires Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America, by Michael Hiltzik (read 23 Sep 2020) This is a 2020 book which relates the economic history of late 19th century and early 20th century American history, with particular attention to railroad history. Railroads played a big part in the nation in those years, as they still do, but not a dominant part as they did in those years I found the book seemed to relate history I was familiar with but the account became more interesting as I proceeded through the book. But it did not seem to me that the research was as thorough as it might have been, nor was the book in its earlier part as well organized as it should have been. But the book does contain appropriate legal citations, the omission of which in other books I find distressing. I think this book is set to be published Sept 25, 2020, so it is as new as any book I think I have ever read. ( )
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Introduction: For two weeks in deep summer, westbound passengers on a Union Pacific train encountered a tubercular Scot whose conversation, dripping with literary grandiloquence, had earned him the nickname "Shakespeare."
On the morning of November 8, 1833, a train of the Camden & Amboy Railroad on a route connecting New York and Philadelphia broke an axle and derailed, killing two and grievously injuring almost all the others.
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Epilogue: In a way, while rivals, Morgan and Harriman ultimately were complementary competitors - opponents who, together, remade America in their image and brought it into the modern era.
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 centuryâ??and almost sent it off the rails. Narrated by Nick Tecosky.
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A fantastic book that deals speaks of some of the familiar stories such as how Fisk and Gould tried to get one over on the Commodore and the Trust Busting of Theodore Roosevelt. Truly a fantastic book on the making, merging and running of the Train Trusts in the 1800's through early 1900's.
Including the Epilogue it runs only 379 pages, but a fast read that I heartily endorse for all interested in the empire building of the Gilded Age. (