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Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Describes the period after the Civil War when the United States was becoming increasingly industrialized and technological, including the coming of the railroads, the rise of the large corporations, the development of labor unions, and government regulation.
4) The hour of fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the battle to transform American capitalism
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It seemed like no force in the world could slow J.P. Morgan's drive to power. In the summer of 1901, the financier was assembling his next mega-deal: Northern Securities, an enterprise that would affirm his dominance in America's most important industry: the railroads. Then, a bullet from an anarchist's gun put an end to the business-friendly presidency of William McKinley. A new chief executive bounded into office: Theodore Roosevelt. He was convinced...
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This book provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day-to-day life in America during the last two decades of the 19th century. It will uncover what life was like for ordinary Americans as they lived through an industrialized revolution, labor strikes, an influx of millions of immigrants, and the expansion of cities and the railroad.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"An Unlikely Trust is the story of the uneasy but fruitful collaboration between Theodore Roosevelt and Pierpont Morgan. It is also the story of how government and business evolved from a relationship of laissez-faire to the active regulation that we know today. And it is an account of how, despite all that has changed in America over the past century, so much remains the same, including the growing divide between rich and poor; the tangled bonds...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examines the economic growth of the United States since the Civil War, arguing that the rate of growth between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated and that a number of issues are further stagnating the already slow rate of productivity growth.
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