American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

by: H. W. Brands (Author)

Publisher: Anchor

Publication Date: 2011/10/4

Language: English

Print Length: 686 pages

ISBN-10: 0307386775

ISBN-13: 9780307386779

Book Description

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War: a “first-rate” narrative history (The New York Times)that brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably mode America.  American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the tu 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, Caegie, 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.

About the Author

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War: a “first-rate” narrative history (The New York Times)that brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably mode America.  American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the tu 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, Caegie, 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.