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Railroaded

Richard White

Did railroads make the modern corporate world as much through failure as through success?

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At a glance

Author
Richard White

Why read it

  • You will learn to look behind a big promise of progress to the finances, politics and labor that carried it
  • You will learn to tell the image a big company projects from what it actually is
  • You will see how friendships and political favors can decide whether a huge, publicly backed project survives

Who it is for

  • An investor or manager wary of how hype and finance mix
  • Someone fascinated by how the American West was opened and who paid
  • A reader who wonders why big corporations draw both pride and distrust

Contents

  1. RAILROADED
  2. INTRODUCTION
  3. RAILROADED
  4. CHAPTER 1
  5. GENESIS
  6. A Railroad Life: H. K. Thomas
  7. CHAPTER 2
  8. ANNUS HORRIBILIS: 1873
  9. A Railroad Life: William Hyde
  10. CHAPTER 3
  11. FRIENDS
  12. A Railroad Life: Elias C. Boudinot
  13. CHAPTER 4
  14. SPATIAL POLITICS
  15. A Railroad Life: Alfred A. Cohen
  16. CHAPTER 5
  17. KILKENNY CATS
  18. Mise en Scène: Labor in Nature
  19. CHAPTER 6
  20. MEN IN OCTOPUS SUITS
  21. A Railroad Life: William Mahl
  22. CHAPTER 7
  23. WORKINGMEN
  24. A Railroad Life: William Pinkerton
  25. CHAPTER 8
  26. LOOKING BACKWARD
  27. Mise en Scène: The Death of Johanna Grogan
  28. CHAPTER 9
  29. COLLAPSE
  30. Mise en Scène: Reading the Newspapers
  31. CHAPTER 10
  32. STRIKE
  33. Mise en Scène: Following the Detectives
  34. CHAPTER 11
  35. CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
  36. Mise en Scène: Wovoka
  37. EPILOGUE
  38. CONCLUSION
  39. APPENDIX

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