Iron Empires
"Engrossing... Hiltzik is] an able narrator, with an eye for telling detail."--New York Times Book ReviewFrom Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between…
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"Engrossing... Hiltzik is] an able narrator, with an eye for telling detail."--New York Times Book ReviewFrom 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
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