list of b&amp;w illustrations and tables, Introduction, 1. A Town Grows Legs: The Birth of the L &amp; N, 2. The State Between the War: The L &amp; N in Wartime, 1861-65; 3. The sinews of Transportation, Part I; 4. The Contours of Postwar Strategy; 5. Combinations and Complications, 1865-73; 6. Northern Invaders and Southern Invasions, 1870-73; 7. The Furies Uncaged: Depression and Expansion, 1872-79; 8. "Newcomb's Octopus": The Zenith of Territorial Expansion, 1879-81; 9. The Financiers Take Charge: Interterritorial Expansion, 1880-83; 10.Scandal and Reorganization, 1884; 11. A Curmudgeon for All Seasons: Milton H. Smith and His Adminsitratiosn; 12. In Pursuit of Profits: Financial Policy, 1885-1902; 13. Tracks to the Door: Developmental Extension, 1885-1902; 14. Childhood's End: Interterritorial Expansion, 1885-1902; 15. Sinews of Transportation, Part II; 16. The Great Freight Rate Debate; 17. Through a Glass Darkly: The L &amp; N in Politics, 1880-1920; 18. Gotterdammerung: The Close of an Era, 1902-21; 19. From Riches to Rags: Prosperity and Depression, 1921-40; 20. Ressurection and Redirection: War and Modernization, 1941-59; Epilogue: Into the Maw of Progress; postscript, appendices, notes, bibliography, index.

History of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad

Engineering & Transportation

Klein, Maury

Transportation

Macmillan Publishing Co.Inc

The first major history of the Crash in over a decade, Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe. The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipulators such as the legendary Jesse Livermore, and the lavish-living Billy Durant, founder of General Motors. As Klein follows the careers of these men, he shows us how the financial house of cards gradually grew taller, as the irrational exuberance of an earlier age gripped America and convinced us that the market would continue to rise forever. Then, in October 1929, came a "perfect storm"-like convergence of factors that shook Wall Street to its foundations. We relive Black Thursday, when police lined Wall Street, brokers grew hysterical, customers "bellowed like lunatics," and the ticker tape fell hours behind. This is followed by the even worse Bloody Tuesday, when an irrational desire to sell at any price gripped the market and even blue chip stocks plummeted precariously. This compelling history of the Crash--the first to follow the market closely for the two years leading up to the disaster--illuminates a major turning point in our history.

Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929 (Pivotal Moments in American History)

Business & Money

Economics

Oxford University Press

Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe. The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipulators such as the legendary Jesse Livermore, and the lavish-living Billy Durant, founder of General Motors. As Klein follows the careers of these men, he shows us how the financial house of cards gradually grew taller, as the irrational exuberance of an earlier age gripped America and convinced us that the market would continue to rise forever. Then, in October 1929, came a "perfect storm"-like convergence of factors that shook Wall Street to its foundations. We relive Black Thursday, when police lined Wall Street, brokers grew hysterical, customers "bellowed like lunatics," and the ticker tape fell hours behind. This compelling history of the Crash--the first to follow the market closely for the two years leading up to the disaster--illuminates a major turning point in our history.

The dramatic story of the "power revolution" that turned America from an agrarian society into a technological superpower, and the dynamic, fiercely  competitive inventors and entrepreneurs who made it happen―a riveting historical saga to rival McCullough's The Great Bridge or Larson's Thunderstruck.Maury Klein, author of Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929, is one of America's most acclaimed historians of business and industry. In The Power Makers, he offers an epic narrative of his greatest subject yet―the "power revolution" that transformed American life in the course of the nineteenth century. The steam engine, the incandescent bulb, the electric motor―inventions such as these replaced backbreaking toil with machine labor and changed every aspect of daily life in the span of a few generations. The power revolution is not a tale of machines, however, but of men: inventors such as James Watt, Elihu Thomson, and Nikola Tesla; entrepreneurs such as George Westinghouse; savvy businessmen such as J.P. Morgan, Samuel Insull, and Charles Coffin of General Electric. Striding among them like a colossus is the figure of Thomas Edison, who was creative genius and business visionary at once. With consummate skill, Klein recreates their discoveries, their stunning triumphs and frequent failures, and their unceasing, tumultuous, and ferocious battles in the marketplace.In Klein's hands, their personalities and discoveries leap off the page. The Power Makers is a dazzling saga of inspired invention, dogged persistence, and  business competition at its most naked and cutthroat―a tale of America in its most astonishing decades.

The Power Makers

Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific--the oldest, largest, and most successful railroad of modern times--fully up to date. The book follows the trajectory of an icon of the industrial age trying to negotiate its way in a post-railway world, plagued by setbacks such as labor disputes, aging infrastructure, government de-regulation, ill-fated mergers, and more. By 1969 the same company that a century earlier had triumphantly driven the golden spike into Promontory Summit--to immortalize the nation's first transcontinental railway--seemed a dinosaur destined for financial ruin. But as Klein shows, the Union Pacific not only survived but is once more thriving, which proves that railways remain critical to commerce and industry in America, even as passenger train travel has all but disappeared. Drawing on interviews with Union Pacific personnel past and present, Klein takes readers inside the great railroad--into its boardrooms and along its tracks--to show how the company adapted to the rapidly changing world of modern transportation. The book also offers fascinating portraits of the men who have run the railroad. The challenges they faced, and the strategies they developed to meet them, give readers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of one of America's great companies. A capstone on a remarkable achievement, Union Pacific: The Reconfiguration will appeal to historians, business scholars, and transportation buffs alike.

Union Pacific: The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present

Biography & History

Traces the first thirty years of the Union Pacific Railroad, one of the oldest still in operation in the U.S

Union Pacific

History

Americas

DOUBLEDAY

Union Pacific: The Rebirth 1894-1969

The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920 (Cambridge Essential Histories)

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. It focuses on four major revolutions that ushered in this new era: those in power, transportation, communication, and organization. Using the metaphor of America as an economic hothouse uniquely suited to rapid economic growth during these years, it analyzes the interplay of key factors such as entrepreneurial talent, technology, land, natural resources, law, mass markets, and the rise of cities. It also delineates the process that laid the foundation for the modern era, in which virtually every human activity became a business, and, in most cases, a big business. The book also profiles numerous major entrepreneurs whose careers and activities illustrate broader trends and themes. It utilizes a wide variety of sources, including novels from the period, to produce a lively narrative.

Cambridge University Press

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. It focuses on four major revolutions that ushered in this new era: those in power, transportation, communication, and organization. Using the metaphor of America as an economic hothouse uniquely suited to rapid economic growth during these years, it analyzes the interplay of key factors such as entrepreneurial talent, technology, land, natural resources, law, mass markets, and the rise of cities. It also delineates the process that laid the foundation for the modern era, in which virtually every human activity became a business, and, in most cases, a big business. The book also profiles numerous major entrepreneurs whose careers and activities illustrate broader trends and themes. It utilizes a wide variety of sources, including novels from the period, to produce a lively narrative.

Examines events leading up to the Civil War, from Lincoln's 1860 election, through Southern threats to secede, to the fall of Fort Sumter

Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War

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History of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad

Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929 (Pivotal Moments in American History)

Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929 (Pivotal Moments in American History)

The Power Makers

Union Pacific: The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present

Union Pacific

Union Pacific: The Rebirth 1894-1969

The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920 (Cambridge Essential Histories)

The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920 (Cambridge Essential Histories)

Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War