Richard White 
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America [EPUB ebook] 

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A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
‘A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations.’ —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review

The transcontinental railroads were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating economic panics. Their dependence on public largesse drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, remade the landscape of the West, and opened new ways of life and work. Their discriminatory rates sparked a new antimonopoly politics.

The transcontinentals were pivotal actors in the making of modern America, but the triumphal myths of the golden spike, Robber Barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success.

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Richard White is the author of many acclaimed histories, including the groundbreaking study of the transcontinentals, Railroaded, winner of the LA Times Book Prize and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is Margaret Byrne Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, and lives in Los Angeles, California.

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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 720 ● ISBN 9780393082609 ● 文件大小 2.6 MB ● 出版者 W. W. Norton & Company ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2011 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7467654 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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