American Colossus

H. W. Brands

eBook - 2010

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War: a "first-rate" narrative history (The New York Times) that brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America. American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century, when a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen transformed the United States from an agrarian economy to a world power. From the first Pennsylvania oil gushers to the rise of Chicago skyscrapers, this spellbinding narrative shows how men like Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller ushered in a new era of unbridled capitalism. In the end America achieved unimaginable wealth, but not wi...thout cost to its traditional democratic values.

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
H. W. Brands
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size7 GB
ISBN9780385533584
Release Date10/12/2010
Kindle Book
ASINB003F3PK72
Release Date10/12/2010
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780385533584
Release Date10/12/2010