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totalt 18 träffar
Call to Arms
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 to fight a war across two …
Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman
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. Like his fellow businessmen, …
The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman
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. Like his fellow businessmen, …
The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920
This book, first published in 2007, offers a bold new interpretation of American business history during the formative years 1870–1920, which mark the dawn of modern big business. …
Rainbow's End
Few single events have affected business and society in the US so profoundly, and in such a short time. There have also been few books that address both these elements of the crash …
Stealing Games
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 baseball history, but as Maury Klein …
Union Pacific
The Union Pacific Railroad is renowned as America’s first transcontinental railroad and is one of the strongest companies in the railroad industry today. The laying of the golden …
Union Pacific
The second volume in the history of the Union Pacific begins after the financial panic of 1893, one of the worst depressions Americans had yet experienced, which pushed the …
History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
An updated, in-depth history of the rise and fall of the L&N Railroad that serviced the southeastern United States.After the Civil War, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad took …
Days of Defiance
“Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholarship.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer In November 1860, telegraph lines carried the …
Power Makers
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 subject yet - the "e;power …
Union Pacific
Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "e;thoroughly and compellingly detailed history,"e; Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad …