Railroaded

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The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S economy Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption Their operations rearranged space and time, and remade the landscape of the West As wheel and rail, car and coal, they opened new worlds of work and ways of life Their discriminatory rates sparked broad opposition and a new antimonopoly politics.With characteristic originality, range, and authority, Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be 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. Free Download [ Railroaded ] Author [ Richard White ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Chances are, you ve been affected somehow, in some way, by the Great Recession I know I have I live in Omaha, which oddly enough, has suddenly become an extremely appealing place to be we are the most affordable city in the US our unemployment rate is half the national average and contrary to myth, we have never elected a head of cattle to the state legislature We ve certainly weathered the storm better than most I m looking enviously at you, North Dakota still, the cutbacks, belt tigh Chances are, you ve been affected somehow, in some way, by the Great Recession I know I have I live in Omaha, which oddly enough, has suddenly become an extremely appealing place to be we are the most affordable city in the US our unemployment rate is half the national average and contrary to myth, we have never elected a head of cattle to the state legislature We ve certainly weathered the storm better than most I m looking enviously at you, North Dakota still, the cutbacks, belt tightening, and general anxiety exist are omnipresent In this shoddy economic environment, you might not want to read Richard White s Railroaded Its tale of companies grown too big to fail, and of the leaders of those companies, who managed to maintain their wealth despite wrecking the national economy, might hit a little too close to home After all, there are enough things to get angry about i...Admirable AND readable a clear eyed, deeply researched account with disturbing contemporary implications A fine example of intelligent, provocative history, and an unsparing anatomy of the American character If you find y...Richard White questions the building of the transcontinentals and the men who headed these massive 19th century corporations Titans of the Gilded Age, the transcontinentals proved to be extremely efficient at being inefficient The railroad men prove to be rather lousy businessmen, and their corporations constantly need governmen...White s book is a detailed economic analysis of the post Civil War RR industry He explains how the RR conquered space, time, and nature but that it was a flawed system White identifies the depth of corruption that infested the RR industry from top to bottom While corruption was typical for the Gilded Age, White explains how bankers and politicians colluded in the business White explains how competition led to monopolies, how labor unions were crushed, and how the RR practices and collapse le White s book...Some of the parts were dense and difficult to understand, but the overarching themes of the book are fascinating This book should be required reading for every presidential candidate because I would be very interested in hearing their opinion of the transcontinentals and for what should happen at the intersection of business and government True, they were the coveted New Economy companies for its time, and by opening the West for development, were undoubtedly Jobs Creators, but they also were Some of the parts were dense and difficult to understand, but the overarching themes of the book are fascinating This book should be required reading for every presidential candidate because I would be very interested in hearing their opinion of the transcontinentals and for what should happen at the intersection of business and government True, they were the coveted New Economy companies for its time, and by opening the West for development, were undoubtedly Jobs Creators, but they also were Washington Insiders feeding at the public trough, and were also Too Big To Fail Companies that needed Bailouts Some of theinteresting passages that stuck in my mind Railroad entrepreneurs were innovators They sought ...The Transcontinental Railroads And Creative DestructionOn May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah, the lines of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were symbolically linked together to celebrate the completion of the first transcontinental railroad An iconic photograph celebrates this event Once viewed as a seminal moment in the making of the United States and the West, the events at Promontory Summit and their aftermath receive a great deal of critical attention in Richard White s The Transcontinental Railroads And Creative DestructionOn May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah, the lines of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were symbolically linked together to celebrate the completion of the first transcontinental railroad An iconic photograph celebrates this event Once viewed as a seminal moment in the making of the United States and the West, the events at Promontory Summit and their aftermath receive a great deal of critical attention in Richard White s provocative and polemical book, Railroaded The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America 2011 White, the winner o...Outstanding book I love all of Whites work His redefinition of the captialists to the finaciers is great His use of the individual characters in samll chapters describing unique individual railroad people is intriguing His description of the railroads in Mexico and Canada is excellent The thesis that these early robber barons where NOT too bright is also very interesting, and I don t feel very sorry for Leland Stanford at all or his wife White describes the early GLO s manipulation very Outstanding book I love all of Whites work His redefinition of the captialists to the finacie...In some ways, an excellent reexamination of the burst of railroad construction that followed the Civil War The author thesis is that contrary to the common view of romance or heroic man against nature , the actual experience was one of failure and unintended consequences, mostly bad The relationship between ...An excellent look into the insiders of the Transcontinentals the men who gave us crony capitalism It helps to start with a basic understanding the of railroads of the late 1800 s before opening this book One cannot help but come away with the idea that the 20th century didn t happen The c...Very good read, it s amazing how such a major achievement the Transcontinental construction was completely fraught with fraud and corruption This event mirrors the recent bailouts and other similar things that came out ...

Railroaded
  • English
  • 27 March 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 704 pages
  • 0393061264
  • Richard White
  • Railroaded