Volume 39 of 50. The Chronicles of America Series is dedicated to presenting the main facts surrounding American history and the interesting historical stories behind civilization in America. In the present work, the reader will find a chronicle of the captains of industry in the Age of Big Business, including the telephone, epic of steel, development of public utilities and the automobile.
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COSIMO CLASSICS offers distinctive titles by the great authors and thinkers who have inspired, informed and engaged readers throughout the ages.
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BURTON JESSE HENDRICK (1870-1949) was a respected American author and historian. He won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for biography for Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, and The Victory at Sea, which he co-wrote with Admiral William S. Sims, and won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1921. The Training of an American earned him a third Pulitzer in 1929. Hendrick also wrote Bulwark of the Republic, Statesmen of the Lost Cause, and Lincoln's War Cabinet.
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A comprehensive survey of the United States, at the end of the Civil War, would reveal a state of society which bears little resemblance to that of today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, United States, Standard Oil, Western Union, Wall Street, Bell Company, Henry Ford, Pennsylvania Railroad, South Improvement Company, San Francisco, Alexander Graham Bell, Carnegie Company, Cornelius Vanderbilt, New England, Lake Superior, Elisha Gray, Fifth Avenue, Mississippi Valley, South America, Tammany Hall New!
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A comprehensive survey of the United States, at the end of the Civil War, would reveal a state of society which bears little resemblance to that of today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, United States, Standard Oil, Western Union, Wall Street, Bell Company, Henry Ford, Pennsylvania Railroad, South Improvement Company, San Francisco, Alexander Graham Bell, Carnegie Company, Cornelius Vanderbilt, New England, Lake Superior, Elisha Gray, Fifth Avenue, Mississippi Valley, South America, Tammany Hall New!
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- The History of The Telephone by Herbert N. Casson in Back Matter
- History of the Standard Oil by Ida M. Tarbell in Back Matter
- Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work by Herbert N. Casson in Back Matter
- The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry by Burton J. Hendrick in Front Matter
- Romance of Steel: The Story of a Thousand Millionaires by Herbert Newton Casson in Back Matter
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- Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition by Rosabeth Moss Kanter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Pullman Strike: The Story of a Unique Experiment and of a Great Labor Upheaval (Phoenix Books) by Almont Lindsey on page 17, and Back Matter
- Age of Invention (Chronicles of America, Part 37) by Holland Thompson on page 117, and page 209
- The United States Since the Civil War by Charles Ramsdell Lingley on page 166
- The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters and the British Aristocratic World Into Which They Married by Elisabeth Kehoe in Back Matter
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