American ColossusFrom 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 without cost to its traditional democratic values. |
Contents
One Nation Under Rails | |
The First Triumvirate | |
Toil and Trouble | |
The Conquest of the South | |
Lakotas Last Stand | |
Profits on the Hoof | |
The Spirit of | |
Lives of the Parties | |
Capital Improvements | |
Meet Jim Crow | |
Affairs of the Heartland | |
The Wages of Capitalism | |
Tariff Bill and Dollar Mark | |
Imperial Dreams | |
To Make the Desert Bloom | |
The Teeming Shore | |
Cities of the Plain | |
Below the | |
Photo Insert | |
The Apotheosis of Pierpont Morgan | |
Epilogue The Democratic Counterrevolution | |
Acknowledgments | |
About the Author | |
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