Iron Empires
Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
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Nick Tecoksy
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Michael Hiltzik
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In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America’s railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. The vicious competition between empire builders such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, and E. H. Harriman sparked stock market frenzies, panics, and crashes; provoked strikes that upended the relationship between management and labor; transformed the nation’s geography; and culminated in a ferocious two-man battle that shook the nation’s financial markets to their foundations and produced dramatic, lasting changes in the interplay of business and government.
Spanning four decades and featuring some of the most iconic figures of the Gilded Age, Iron Empires reveals how the robber barons drove the country into the twentieth century—and almost sent it off the rails.
Narrated by Nick Tecosky.
The broader issue at hand is that he describes so many extremely trivial things that I am getting bored all the time.
The depth would be great if he was able to limit himself more.
For example, he touches the Crédit Mobilier scandal only from a shallow angle whereas this type of story is what really matters to add substance.
Most of the things he describes do not avail to a greater meaning and when he does describe interesting things, which he does all the time as well, my mind is detached from his line of thought.
Mostly boring
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