American Colossus

by Brands, H. W.

• ISBN13: 9780739377925
• ISBN10: 0739377922
• Edition: Large
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-19
• Publisher: Random House Large Print

Summary

The years between the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century saw the wholesale transformation of America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant. Driven by unfathomably wealthy and powerful businessmen, armies of workers were harnessed to a new vision of massive industry. A society rooted in the soil became one based in cities.

Author Biography

H. W. BRANDS is the Dickson Allen Anderson Pro­fessor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, and for Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His website is www.hwbrands.com.


From the Hardcover edition.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Capitalist Revolution	p. 3
The Rise of the Moguls
Speculation as Martial Art	p. 15
One Nation Under Rails	p. 64
The First Triumvirate	p. 105
Toil and Trouble	p. 157
Frontiers of Enterprise
The Conquest of the South	p. 203
Lakota's Last Stand	p. 252
Profits on the Hoof	p. 303
To Make the Desert Bloom	p. 343
Gotham and Gomorrah
The Teeming Shore	p. 389
Cities of the Plain	p. 435
Below the El	p. 484
The Finest Government Money Can Buy
School for Scandal	p. 517
The Spirit of '76	p. 554
Lives of the Parties	p. 583
Capital Improvements	p. 610
The Decade of the Century
Meet: Jim Crow	p. 645
Affairs of the Heartland	p. 706
The Wages of Capitalism	p. 765
Tariff Bill and Dollar Mark	p. 804
Imperial Dreams	p. 834
The Apotheosis of Pierpont Morgan	p. 885
Epilogue :The Democratic Counterrevolution	p. 908
Acknowledgments	p. 935
Notes	p. 937
Index	p. 1003
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