American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (938 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385523335 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 624 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brands is the Dickson Allen Anderson Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. W. 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 Web site is hwbrands. H.
In American Colossus, H.W. 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. Brands’s spellbinding narrative beautifully depicts the oil gushers of western Pennsylvania, the rise, in Chicago, of the first skyscraper, the exploration of the Colorado River, the cattle drives of the West, and the early passionate sparks of union life. It crashed across the urban landscape of the East and North, turning cities into engines of wealth and poverty, opulence and squalor. Brands portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America. American Colossus is an unforgettable portrait of the years when the contest between capitalism and democracy was at its sharpest, and capitalism triumphed.. “What do I care about the law?” bellowed Cornelius Vanderbilt. Rockefeller, armies of workers, both male and female, were harnessed to a new vision of massive industry. It roared across the South, wrenching that region from its feuda
. From Publishers Weekly In this timely study, University of Texas historian Brands (Traitor to His Class) describes the rise of the great corporate capitalists after the Civil War. Washington, Black Elk, Jacob Riis, and others convey the drama of the time. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie constituted an trinity of power-obsessed individuals who instinctively understood that wealth was the ultimate political weapon. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Pierpont Morgan, John D. All rights reserved. Perhaps the only significant omission in this fast-paced, engrossing narrative is a tendency to dwell on political doctrines that sought to repudiate or restrain capitalism while only briefly discussing the dogma of Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism, which favored the monopolists. J. Fascinatin
Think: "Ken Burns: The Gilded Age of Capitalism." If the term "economic history" makes your eyes glaze over as you think about a dry analysis of GDP projections and steel tonnage figures, fear not. There isn't a single mention of inflation or per capita income in here. Think more along the lines of "Ken Burns: The Gilded Age of Capitalism." Although the subject matter is susceptible to drowning in rivers of mind-numbing statistical data, the author takes a single-mindedly narrative approach to his material. Moreover, economics is not really th. Capitalism and Democracy Robin Friedman Many people who have thought about the United States have seen a tension between its commitments to democracy and capitalism. The former is based upon equality. Capitalism is based upon an ethic of freedom which allows individuals to go in their own directions which, in economic life, quickly can lead to inequality. In his new book, "American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism 1865 -- 1900, H.W. Brands examines the uneasy and shifting relationship between democracy and capitalism during Americ. A lot of history Chelsea Levine This book was good, but not the greatest. It was very long and some the information was dragging. Only read if you are a history buff.