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From Michael Hiltzik comes Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America, available as a complete audiobook for Business listeners.
Harriman sparked stock market frenzies, panics, and crashes; provoked strikes that upended the rela 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.
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