The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America

Maury Klein

Bloomsbury USA, Jun 1, 2009 - History - 560 pages

In The Power Makers, one of America's most acclaimed historians of business and society offers an epic narrative of his greatest subject yet—the "power revolution" that transformed American life in the course of the nineteenth century.

With consummate skill, Klein recreates the discoveries, the stunning triumphs and frequent failures, and the unceasing battles in the marketplace. The Power Makers is a dazzling saga of inspired invention, dogged persistence, and business rivalry at its most naked and cutthroat—a tale of America in its most astonishing decades.

About the author

Maury Klein is the author of many books, including The Life and Legend of Jay Gould; Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War; and Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929. He is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Rhode Island.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
• Author: Maury Klein
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, 2009
• ISBN: 159691677X, 9781596916777
• Length: 560 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / General; Science / History