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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...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2003.
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| 520 | |a 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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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction; 1 Oasis in a Gritty City; 2 The Ideal Suburb; 3 Mr. Smith Sells a Farm; 4 Mr. Smith Sells a Railroad; 5 Shaping Solid Forms; 6 A Difficult Birth at the Public Square; 7 The Beginnings of an Empire; 8 To the South, East, and North; 9 Taking Stock: 1924; 10 Some Shadows Fleet By; 11 Building, Rebuilding, and Juggling; 12 Consolidation Anarchy I: The Maverick and the General; 13 Consolidation Anarchy II: The Street Fighter; 14 The Summit I: An Appalachian Peak in the Rockies; 15 The Summit II: Filling Out the Railroad Map | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 16 The Summit III: Consummation in Cleveland-and a Jolt17 Completions and Complications; 18 Taking Stock: 1930; 19 Sudden Darkness; 20 The Rails Roll Downgrade; 21 A New World; 22 The Cruelest Year; 23 The Last Train; 24 Epilogue I: New Empires from Old; 25 Epilogue II: The Ghosts; Notes; Sources and Acknowledgments; Index | |
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