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Invisible Giants.
Invisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who rose from poverty to become two of the most powerful men in America. They controlled the country's largest railroad system a network of track reaching from...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Invisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who rose from poverty to become two of the most powerful men in America. They controlled the country's largest railroad system a network of track reaching from the Atlantic to Salt Lake City and from Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico. On the eve of the Great Depression they were close to controlling the country's first coast-to-coast rail system a goal that still eludes us. They created the model upper-class suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, with its unique rapid tr. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (361 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253110602 0253110602 9780253341631 0253341639 |