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| By : Peter Krass |
One of the major figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie was a ruthless businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry and ultimately gave most of it away. He used his wealth to ascend the world’s political stage, influencing the presidencies of Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt. In retirement, Carnegie became an avid promoter of world peace, only to be crushed emotionally by World War I. In this compelling biography, Peter Krass reconstructs the complicated life of this titan who came to power in America’s Gilded Age. He transports the reader to Carnegie’s Pittsburgh, where hundreds of smoking furnaces belched smoke into the sky and the air was filled with acrid fumes . . . and mill workers worked seven-day weeks while Carnegie spent months traveling across Europe....
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Sales Rank: 29,776
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Colonial Engineer: John Whitton, 1819-1898, and the Building of Australia's Railways
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| By : Robert Lee |
Raised in the milieu of the great English pioneer railway engineers, John Whitton conquered the Great Dividing Range in the 1860s, building transmontane lines by hand, before the use of dynamite and in some of the most remote and inhospitable terrain. His origins were humble, and his story one of social and material advancement through talent, will, and mastery of production techniques. His achievement was such that, alone among engineers in Australia, he acquired an international reputation for his genius and his extraordinary achievements. He was responsible for the building of 2,131 miles of railway, traversing terrain as challenging as any railway engineer ever encountered. His most arduous tasks were undertaken early in his career, when railway technology involved pioneering techniques. He built his railways on limited budgets and sometimes in the face of powerful opposition.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Sales Rank: 2,532,693
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Flagler, Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron (Florida Sand Dollar Book)
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| By : Edward N. Akin |
Henry M. Flagler (1830-1913), the ambitious Gilded Age tycoon who designed and built much of Florida's fashionable east coast, rode to success on the rails. As John D. Rockefeller's closest adviser in the 1870s, Flagler helped assemble the Standard Oil empire. In this thoroughly researched biography, Akin shows that Flagler understood early in his career that cheap freight rates determined industrial profits. Portraying Flagler as an aggressive entrepreneur, Akin documents his shrewd negotiations to obtain reduced rates, rebates, and drawbacks from the railroads, thus assuring Standard Oil's national domination over oil transportation costs.
Publisher: Florida Atlantic Univ
Sales Rank: 425,625
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Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers
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| By : Herbert H., Jr. Harwood |
The saga of the Van Sweringen brothers, who seemingly came out of nowhere to create modern Cleveland. Invisible Giants contains twenty-five chapters, yet there are actually three distinct sections in the book. Invisible Giants is well written and expertly researched. It successfully achieves the goal that Harwood has set out for himself -- to tell the story of the brothers Van Sweringen. Nonetheless, after completing the book I was left wanting more. There are two changes that I would like to have seen Harwood make.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Sales Rank: 329,682
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James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest (Borealis Books)
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| By : Albro Martin, W. Thomas White (Introduction) |
James J. Hill (1838-1916), the Empire Builder, created a vast railroad network across the northwestern United States. In this splendid biography, Martin, the first researcher to have access to Hill's voluminous correspondence, richly portrays a man of many parts: an entrepreneur, a family man, a collector of notable French paintings, a promoter of scientific agriculture, and a booster for the Northwest.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Sales Rank: 191,476
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Villard : The Life and Times of an American Titan
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| By : John Cullen, Alexandra De Borchgrave |
Henry Villard was one of the most remarkable and important figures to shape the tumultuous history of nineteenth -century America. A preeminent Civil War journalist, an industrialist, and a financial maverick, his courage, perseverance, and farsightedness made him the equal of such titans of his day as J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. All history centers on the life of Henry Villard, German born, young immigrant, newspaper reporter, and fiinally tycoon. A fascinating read with lots of history. It is a story of the Guilded Age and the railroad wars.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Sales Rank: 148,123
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