Author: Ellen M. Colton
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 610
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of legal briefs relating to legal action of Ellen M. Colton, plaintiff, vs. Leland Stanford, et al. The widow of a fifth partner of the Southern Pacific, she sued to annul a compromise settlement with the surviving partners. She lost the case.
Author: New York (State). Court of Common Pleas (City and County of New York)
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Published: 1858
Total Pages: 824
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard White
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-05-31
Total Pages: 1000
ISBN-13: 0393082601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review The transcontinental railroads were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating economic panics. Their dependence on public largesse drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, remade the landscape of the West, and opened new ways of life and work. Their discriminatory rates sparked a new antimonopoly politics. The transcontinentals were pivotal actors in the making of modern America, but the triumphal myths of the golden spike, Robber Barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success.