American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H. W. Brands Paperback Book

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Rent American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

Author: H. W. Brands

Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Anchor Books

Published: Oct 2011

Genre: History - United States - 19th Century

Retail Price: $21.00

Pages: 640

Synopsis

In this grand-scale narrative history, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America.
 
American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century, when a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen transformed the United States from an agrarian economy to a world power. From the first Pennsylvania oil gushers to the rise of Chicago skyscrapers, this spellbinding narrative shows how men like Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller ushered in a new era of unbridled capitalism. In the end America achieved unimaginable wealth, but not without cost to its traditional democratic values.

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