In a provocative new interpretation of a transforming era, 1850–1920, Klein integrates social, ec...

This book offers a bold new interpretation of American business history at the dawn of big busine...

This book offers a bold new interpretation of American business history at the dawn of big busine...

To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E. H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J. P...

The Crash of '29 is one of the key moments in American, and indeed world history. This gifted nar...

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987.

'Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholars...

The book shows how Union Pacific continues to succeed even as passenger trains have all but disap...

' After the Civil War, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads...

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987.