A lively survey of the railroad industry by the field's leading historian.
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Klein is regarded as one of this nation's most eminent railroad historians. This book is a collection of earlier scholarly articles and popular pieces but also includes a new essay on the importance of railroad history in understanding American life. While some of Klein's work will appeal to railroad nostalgia buffs, his primary concern is with the impact of the railroad on American business and social development. Recent recognition of the significance of this impact came with the awarding of the 1993 Nobel Prize in economics to Robert Vogel, in part because of his econometric analyses of the late-nineteenth-century railroad industry. Klein provides a fascinating complement to Vogel's more esoteric approach. David Rouse
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"Klein has written much of the best railroad history we have . . . Each of these essays is a pleasure to read, and each makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the railroad as an artifact of American business and cultural history." --Journal of Economic History
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