02513cam a2200325 4500 586873973 TxAuBib 20220721120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780544770348 054477034X B07T1FT3D6 Amazon 966a3e9b-4dcf-4f0b-b179-894ecae6aacf OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4787753 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hiltzik, Michael. Iron Empires [Libby eBook] : Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America. HarperCollins, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 18MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<strong>From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans</strong><br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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. Nonfiction. Business. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-21 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=966a3e9b-4dcf-4f0b-b179-894ecae6aacf&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=966a3e9b-4dcf-4f0b-b179-894ecae6aacf&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=966a3e9b-4dcf-4f0b-b179-894ecae6aacf&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)