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American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

H. W. Brands

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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 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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: Oct 4th, 2011
  • Pages: 704
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.20in - 1.40in - 1.55lb
  • EAN: 9780307386779
  • Categories: • United States - 19th Century• Economic History• Anthropology - General

About the Author

H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class.

Praise for this book

"A superb new history. . . . A big, brash narrative." --Bloomberg News

"A first-rate overview of one of the most important periods in American history. . . . Brands is a terrific writer who commands his material, handles this sprawling, complicated story with authority and panache." --The New York Times

"Colorful. . . . Sweeping. . . . Brands masterfully chronicles this transformation. . . . His account serves admirably as a survey history of Gilded Age America." --The Plain Dealer

"An excellent book. . . . Brands is a smart, lively writer. . . . He demonstrates, as the best historians do, that past is prologue." --The Dallas Morning News