Overview :After the Civil War, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing ... Read More
Overview :The Union Pacific Railroad is renowned as America's first transcontinental railroad and is one of the strongest companies in the railroad in... Read More
Overview :The second volume in the history of the Union Pacific begins after the financial panic of 1893, one of the worst depressions Americans had y... Read More
Overview :To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E. H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew C... Read More
Overview :This book, first published in 2007, offers a bold new interpretation of American business history during the formative years 1870-1920, whic... Read More
Overview :Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s w... Read More
Overview :Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of th... Read More
Overview :The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United ... Read More
Overview :"Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholarship."--The Cleveland Plain Dealer In Novemb... Read More
Overview :In a provocative new interpretation of a transforming era in American history, Maury Klein examines the forces that turned the United States... Read More
Overview :The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special... Read More