
Railroaded
The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Paperback
Other Editions of This Title:
Compact Disc (6/5/2018)
MP3 CD (6/5/2018)
Hardcover (5/31/2011)
Description
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize: "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review
This original, deeply researched history shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike, robber barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success.
Praise For Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America…
— John Steele Gordon - Wall Street Journal
A model of narrative
skill and [an] insightful reinterpretation of the Gilded Age. It is easily the
best business history I have read.
— Donald Worster - Slate
A scathing and wonderful new book. [Railroaded] will entertain and outrage readers.
— Buzzy Jackson - Boston Globe
An acute analysis that in failure came success and in many ways the map of the nation.
— Scott Martelle - Washington Post
Imaginative, iconoclastic, immensely informative and mordantly funny.
— Glenn C. Altschuler - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
W. W. Norton & Company, 9780393342376, 720pp.
Publication Date: April 23, 2012