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American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

By H.W. Brands

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2011
ISBN
1611296803, 9781611296808
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19221185 bytes)
Pages
\631
Time added
2024-08-30 23:36:18

Description

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 without cost to its traditional democratic values.

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